Effect of body habitus
Because our participants represented various body types, the
data were analysed to see if height, weight or BMI affected
the results. No trend emerged upon analysing peak interface
pressures as height, weight or BMI increased. However, for
at-risk areas, an increasing trend began to emerge as weight
and BMI increased, but not height. As for triple jeopardy
areas, again an increasing trend began to emerge as weight
and BMI increased, but not height. When viewing the
interface pressure profiles, there did not appear to be any
noticeable differences between varying heights, weights or
BMIs apart from the relative size of the participant.