Communicable Research Podcast #40 - Dr Laura Gray - How does the BMI scale compare to other obesity measures?

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Communicable Research Podcast

The University of Sheffield

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Communicable Research is a series of podcasts from the Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research, based in the School of Medicine and Population Health at The University of Sheffield. In this series we’ll hear from researchers at Sheffield and the work they undertake to tackle some of the world’s biggest health challenges. https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr Published CC BY 4.0 Music credit Creation by airtone (c) copyright 2019 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/59721

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Communicable Research is a series of podcasts from the Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research, based in the School of Medicine and Population Health at The University of Sheffield. In this series we’ll hear from researchers at Sheffield and the work they undertake to tackle some of the world’s biggest health challenges. https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr Published CC BY 4.0 Music credit Creation by airtone (c) copyright 2019 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/59721

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Communicable Research Podcast #40 - Dr Laura Gray - How does the BMI scale compare to other obesity measures?

Communicable Research Podcast

21 minutes 35 seconds

3 months ago

Communicable Research Podcast #40 - Dr Laura Gray - How does the BMI scale compare to other obesity measures?

For episode 40 of the Communicable Research podcast we are joined by Dr Laura Gray who is Senior Research Fellow in Health Econometrics at the School of Medicine and Population Health.

Laura’s research interests include econometric methods development in the areas of obesity research and utility mapping research and it is the topic of obesity we discuss in this episode.

We focus on the much used BMI scale and discuss whether it is the best way to measure obesity when other measures are available which could give us a better picture about the population's health the threat to it by being overweight.

Guest: Laura Gray

Producer and Host: Andy Tattersall

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airtone (c) copyright 2019 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. ⁠http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/59721