What professions are most at risk of developing diabetes?

Workplace interventions could reduce weight and increase physical activity: authors
Lydia Hales
construction workers

Male professional drivers and female cleaners are among those with the highest risk of type 2 diabetes, researchers say.

A Swedish study has revealed the jobs hardest hit by the disease — and which may benefit the most from interventions.

National registers were used to follow a cohort of more than 4.5 million people for a diagnosis of diabetes from 2006 to 2015.

Researchers looked at all Swedish citizens born between 1937 and 1979, and who were employed between 2001 and 2013.