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.