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Aim: To establish the relationship between body composition and balance in asymptomatic individuals.
Study Design: Cross sectional study.
Study Setting: Tertiary care teaching hospital. Method: A Sample of 56 students comprising of 36 male and 20 female were recruited for the cross-sectional correctional study. All required anthropometric measures were recorded and BMI, waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) and percentage of body fat (PBF) were estimated from them. Their association with functional reach test (FRT) as balance measure was determined using Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient.
Result: There is no association of FRT with BMI (=-0.13; p=0.36) and PBF (=- 0.072,-0.13; p>0.05) while moderate to good degree of association with WHR (=0.54; p<0.001). Result: Body composition does not have any influence over balance. Increasing central obesity component increases stability among asymptomatic individuals.