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Table 3 Children, according to age groups, foot posture and BMI cut-off points.

From: The paediatric flat foot and general anthropometry in 140 Australian school children aged 7 - 10 years

Age (years)

No. children (-/140 total (%))

No. children with flat feet

No. children without flat feet

BMI - cut off points/age [International Obesity Task Force]

No. of overweight children vs foot posture (-/mean FPI-6 L: R)

No. of overweight children with flat feet

7

11 (7.4)

3

8

18

3/6.3: 5.0

1

8

50 (33.8)

13

37

18.5

10/4.4: 3.7

1

9

47 (31.8)

9

38

19

21/3.1: 2.6

3

10

32 (21.6)

6

26

20

11/2.6: 2.2

0

Total no. children

140

31

109

-

55

5

  1. Using the international cut-off points for overweight (BMI 25 kg/m2) 55/140 children were found to be overweight. Only five of the overweight children also had flat feet (FPI-6 greater or equal to 6 points on both left and right feet).