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Usage of foot pressure index (FPI) is widespread to but the determinants of FPI without accounting to the left right foot differences. Therefore, identifying limb-specific determinants would enhance screening accuracy and help in more targeted interventions. The objective of the study was to determine and compare limb specific predictors based on the foot pressure index of right and left foot among young adults using machine learning models. A total of 581 (290 females and 291 males) 18\u201325-year-old young adults were assessed on anthropometric measures, joint hyper mobility and functional mobility. Using SAS-Viya, separate entropy-based decision trees, along with logistic regression models were developed and model performance was evaluated using validation-test accuracy and area under the curve (AUC). Decision tree models outperformed logistic regression for both FPI-Left (FPI-L) and FPI-Right (FPIR). 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