Episode 28: BMI? BM… Why?? Let’s not reduce health status to a number!!
Update: 2025-09-28
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In this episode I pick apart some of the controversies around using the BMI routinely in pregnancy care, and talk about why this one simple number should not cannot be used as a proxy for health. I discuss the problems with the BMI categories and the way in which this leads women to be categorised as ‘high risk’ or ‘low risk’ in pregnancy - never a helpful thing!
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