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Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) remains a major global health challenge, with sustained growth in prevalence across all regions and projections for substantial further increases over the coming decades. Beyond biological risk, a broad array of social determinants and behavioral factors shape T2DM risk and outcomes. Lower socioeconomic position—including lower educational attainment, income, and occupational status—has been consistently associated with higher T2DM incidence, highlighting the role of social gradients in diabetes epidemiology. Contemporary scientific reviews emphasize that social determinants of health (SDOH)—such as neighborhood deprivation, food and built environments, access to care, discrimination, and structural racism—operate across the life course to influence both the development and management of T2DM. Lifestyle factors remain central, and robust evidence links greater physical activity with lower T2DM risk across activity domains and intensities. Diet quality also shows consistent associations with T2DM incidence and prognosis, and multi-component “healthy lifestyle” profiles (e.g. non-smoking, healthy diet, adequate activity, and weight control) confer large relative risk reductions for incident T2DM and diabetes-related mortality.– In parallel, cigarette smoking—still prevalent in many settings—raises T2DM risk by ~30%–40% and adversely affects insulin sensitivity and β-cell function, underscoring its continuing importance as a modifiable exposure in diabetes prevention strategies. Non-invasive risk scores synthesize sociodemographic and behavioral information to enable scalable identification of high-risk individuals in community and primary-care settings. The Finnish Diabetes Risk Score (FINDRISC), QResearch-derived Diabetes Risk Score (QDScore), and QResearch Diabetes Risk Prediction Algorithm (QDiabetes) exemplify widely used tools that integrate age, adiposity, family history, medication use, and lifestyle habits and, in the case of QDScore and QDiabetes, ethnicity and deprivation, to estimate 10-year T2DM risk without laboratory testing.– Such scores facilitate targeted counseling, lifestyle intervention, and efficient deployment of confirmatory testing.