Cardiovascular risk factors and its patterns of change between 4 and 8 years of age in the INMA-Asturias cohort.

These exploratory findings suggest that children who do not present any disorder at 4 years of age tend to remain in that state at 8 years of age. And also that central obesity may play a major role in the development of other disorders, as the number of disorders with which it concomitantly occurs increases between the ages of 4 and 8 years.