Table 2.

Ranking countries for most adverse cardiometabolic risk factor profile

Country (ref)	Mean BMI (kg/m2)	Mean glucose rank	Mean triglyceride rank	Mean HDL-cholesterol rank	Mean systolic blood pressure rank	Total cardiometabolic risk rank
Hungary [42]	31.1	13	2	8	1	1
Dutch-Turkish [34]	29.3	2	13	1	9	2
Turkey1 [38]	27.2	1	1	9	15	3
Italy2 [42]	26.8	8	4	2	10	4
Greece [42]	30.1	4	4	18	3	5
Germany [19]	27.1	10	3	14	6	6
Poland [42]	30.8	13	8	9	4	7
Dutch-Other [34]	29.1	5	14	6	10	8
USA rural [39]	27.6	7	10	4	15	9
USA black [18]	33.2	19	12	4	4	10
Japan [17]	25.7	7	6	20	8	11
Dutch-native [34]	28.7	6	16	9	10	11
Turkey2 [20]	29.1	7	7	18	10	13
Spain [37]	27.3	11	21	9	-	13-19
Dutch-Moroccan	28.4	2	19	7	15	14
France [36]	37.7	20	8	9	6	14
Dominican Republic [40]	34	13	11	2	18	16
Italy1 [27]	33.9	20	17	9	2	17
China [41]	-	13	17	16	-	17-19
Norway [33]	28.2	13	14	16	14	18
Belgium [16]	30.2	13	20	15	-	18-19

Ranking was performed according from highest to lowest mean value for each cardiometabolic risk parameter (lowest to highest in case of HDL-cholesterol). Secondly, an overall mean rank was assigned to each cohort