Table 5. Correlation coefficient between age, anthropometric variable and birth weight in cardiovascular risk factors in pre-pubertal schoolchildren.

	BMI		%fat		WC		Age
Variable	r	p	r	p	r	p	r	p
Glycaemia	-0.146	0.02	-0.130	0.034	–0.095	0.092	0.000	0.50
TC	–0.099	0.083	–0.006	0.136	–0.095	0.091	0.017	0.41
Triglycerides	0.086	0.115	0.081	0.129	0.143	0.022	0.111	0.60
HDL-C	-0.16	0.014	–0.109	0.064	–0.142	0.023	–0.02	0.40
SBP	0.460	< 0.05	0.370	< 0.05	0.462	< 0.05	0.20	0.02
DBP	0.401	< 0.05	0.432	< 0.05	0.416	< 0.05	0.128	0.03
Birth weight	0.169	0.009	0.208	0.002	0.193	0.003	-0.015	0.42

r: Pearson correlation coefficient; BMI: body mass index; SBP: systolic blood pressure; DBP: diastolic blood pressure; TC, total cholesterol; HDL-C: highdensity lipoprotein cholesterol; WC: waist circumference.