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Background: Type 2 diabetes is considered a worldwide public health problem due to its high prevalence and the important complications it causes.Objectives: To assess the influence of healthy habits, especially physical activity and diet, on the risk of type 2 diabetes.Material and methods: Descriptive and cross-sectional study in 1457 Spanish workers in which the influence of different sociodemographicvariables and lifestyle habits such as tobacco consumption, physical activity and adherence to the Mediterraneandiet in relation to the risk of presenting type 2 diabetes assessed with the Finrisk and Leicester scales was evaluated.Results: The prevalence of moderate and high values of the Finrisk and Leicester scales decreased as the level of physical activityassessed with the IPAQ questionnaire increased and as adherence to the Mediterranean diet increased. In the multivariateanalysis by binary logistic regression, high age, male sex, less favoured social class, low level of physical activity and low adherenceto the Mediterranean diet influence the increase in the prevalence of high diabetes risk values, while tobacco consumptionshows a protective effect.Conclusion: Physical exercise and the Mediterranean diet have a beneficial effect on the risk of presenting type 2 diabetes withFinrisk and Leicester scales.Keywords: Diabetes mellitus; physical activity; Mediterranean diet; social class.

Introduction: Cardiovascular disease is currently one of the most prevalent non-communicable diseases, affecting nearly 57% of the world’s population, accounting for 32% of deaths worldwide. The aim of the study is to determine the cardiovascular risk of teaching staff. Methods: Retrospective, cross-sectional study carried out on 4,738 teachers from different Spanish geographical areas with a mean age of 41 years. Different variables related to cardiovascular risk are determined, such as overweight and obesity scales, nonalcoholic fatty liver scales, atherogenic indices, metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular risk scales, among others. Results: Among the results we highlight a prevalence of hypercholesterolemia of 41%, hyperteriglyceridemia 12.1%, hypertension 15.5%, obesity using BMI 13%, high risk of fatty liver 11.3% and moderate or high SCORE values 11.4%. Conclusion: The teaching staff is not free from developing CVD that we can relate to the lack of physical activity and an unhealthy diet that increases the prevalence of obesity and overweight.

Objective: To evaluate different cardiovascular risk scales in construction workers. Methods: A descriptive, cross-sectional study was carried out in 56,262 Spanish construction workers. Scales of obesity and fatty liver, metabolic syndrome, atherogenic indices, and cardiovascular risk scales, among others, were assessed. Results: In women, 19.6% were obese, 18.2% hypertensive, 12.6% had metabolic syndrome, 12% were at high risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, and 4.3% were at moderate or high risk on the SCORE scale. In men, 20.1% were obese, 30.1% hypertensive, 17.5% had metabolic syndrome, and 27.6% had high or moderate risk on the SCORE scale. Conclusions: Knowing the cardiovascular risk of a large number of construction workers by means of a large number of scales may be of great interest to occupational health professionals, as it may enable them to establish prevention strategies.