TY - JOUR AU - Abirami P, AU - Ushapriya Mathiazhakan, AU - Bhuvaneswari A, PY - 2022/04/11 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Flat-foot in overweight is an escalating health problem among college going students JF - International Journal of Research in Pharmaceutical Sciences JA - Int. J. Res. Pharm. Sci. VL - 13 IS - 2 SE - Original Articles DO - 10.26452/ijrps.v13i2.139 UR - https://ijrps.com/home/article/view/139 SP - 173-177 AB - <p>Flat-foot is a remedial condition, where the foot does not have a normal longitudinal health arch while standing. The study aims at assessing and associating flat-foot levels among college students. The study design adopted with a simple sampling technique was an exploratory survey design that selected 102 students. Inclusion requirements include age: 18 to 24, both genders. Body mass index 25.0 and bilateral/unilateral flat-foot index. The resource consists of a structured questionnaire in Section A. The goal of section B was to use the Denis method to test the flat foot. The majority of college students who are overweight belong to the Grade 1 category. In the age-wise category, between 17 years and 20 years, 18 of them were flat-foot in Grade 1, 11 were flat-foot in Grade 2, and 4 were in Grade 3, for a flat toe. In Grade 2, 14 males were flat-foot, and in Grade 1, 21 females were flat-foot about gender. Students ranged in height from 1.40 m to 1.53 m, 16 of whom were flat-foot grade 1 and students under 76 to 100 kg were flat-foot grade 1, and their BMI ranged from 25 to 34, 22 of whom were flat-foot grade 1. The current study indicates a clear correlation between flat foot levels with their demographic weight variable at 0.00 and with their BMI at 0.026. A significant association between demographic variables and their footprint is therefore present.</p> ER -