175. Investigating the Role of BMI in Health Care
About this episode
Robin Beach discusses the limitations of BMI and the benefits of using waist circumference for assessing patient health.
Robin Beach is an HIV specialist who began to turn a critical eye to the usefulness of body mass index (BMI) when it came to understanding the overall health of a patient. On the latest episode of NP Pulse: The Voice of the Nurse Practitioner®, she speaks with Sophia Thomas about using waist circumference as a way to measure the health of specific patient populations instead of BMI, and offers practical strategies for bringing this new tool into routine practice.
People in this episode
Guest: Robin Beach
Topics covered
- BMI
- health measurement
- waist circumference
- patient health
- HIV
- nurse practitioners
Keywords
- BMI
- waist circumference
- health assessment
- HIV specialist
- nurse practitioner
- patient populations
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: NP Pulse: The Voice of the Nurse Practitioner, American Association of Nurse Practitioners
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