Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The obesity epidemic is growing at an alarming rate. The body volume index (BVI) scanner is a novel machine that produces a true scale 3D body image of the whole body within 6 s and may have a role in the management of obesity.Method: In a pilot study, we set out to assess the impact of BVI scanning on weight loss during a standard weight loss programme in overweight subjects. Forty-three subjects were given standard dietary and lifestyle a...

Background: Body Mass Index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) are currently used to assess obesity. BMI and WC do not take into account fat/muscle distribution or allow for distinctions between gender, age or ethnicity. WC reflects abdominal fat distribution more accurately, but is operator-dependant and variable in terms of reproducibility. BVI is a totally new, reproducible and novel concept using a 3D body scanner and appropriate software, to measure total body and 8 body ...