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Had the good fortune to attend the recent Australasian Podiatry Conference held in Sydney, which was brilliant (best clinically significant content I've had the pleasure to listen to in a long time).
Presented there was this research about the relationship between childhood obesity and "flat feet".
http://www.jfootankleres.com/content/6/S1/O12
It used BMI and Foot Posture Index as the measures to draw conclusions, very throughly reanalysing data from the datasets of four earlier studies.
It came to a significantly different conclusion than many other studies in this field, most of which (so I understand) have used footprint based measures. (But I may well be incorrect in thinking this)
My question is this: Does this perhaps raise questions about the Foot Posture Index as a measure? Is this study perhaps showing a different outcome because it is measuring something different, as opposed to having a different outcome because earlier studies were wrong?
Wondering if my analytical instincts are still intact.....
Thanks in advance,
Cara Kwiecien
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