Prevalence of risk factors for cardiovascular and kidney disease in Brazilian healthy preschool children

Table 1 Clinical, demographic and cardiovascular and renal risk factors in healthy preschool children and their mothers

	Children (n = 60)	Mothers (n = 56)
Clinical and demographic characteristic
Male	58.33%
Age (yr)	4.44 ± 1.01	32.5 ± 7.11
Gestational age at birth (wk)	38.72 ± 1.831
Birth weight (kg)	3.12 ± 0.601
Length at birth (cm)	49.83 ± 3.611
Breastfeeding duration (mo)	8.25 (4-21.50)
BMI/A z-score (children) and BMI (mothers)	0.30 (-0.55-1.33)	26.38 ± 5.07
Prehypertension systolic n (%)	11 (18.34)	1 (1.79)
Prehypertension diastolic n (%)	21 (35)	8 (14.29)
Overweight and obesity n (%)	7 (11.67)	35 (62.5)
Physical activity n (%)	8 (13.33)	8 (14.29)
Familial history of cardiovascular event n (%)		32 (57.14)
Marital status n (%)
Married or cohabiting		41 (73.21)
Divorced, single or widowed		15 (26.79)
Education (> 8 yr of schooling)		38 (67.86)
Occupation (working outside the home)		42 (75)
Income per capita (> 1 minimum wage)		13 (23.21)
Cardiovascular and renal risk factors n (%)
Total cholesterol > 200 mg/dL	2 (3.33)	10 (17.86)
LDL-c > 130 mg/dL	3 (5)	8 (14.29)
HDL-c < 35 mg/dL	9 (15)	7 (12.5)
Triglycerides > 150 mg/dL	2 (3.33)	6 (10.71)
Uric acid > 7 mg/dL	0 (0)	0 (0)
Albuminuria > 30 mcg/mg of creatinine	2 (3.33)	2 (3.57)

¹Mean ± SD. BMI/A: Body mass index for age; CV: Cardiovascular; Minimum wage: BRZ $51000; n: Number of observations; LDL-c: Low density lipoprotein; HDL-c: High density lipoprotein.