Body Volume Index
After three-years of successful and innovative validation from collaborators across the world, the Body Volume Index was launched in the West Midlands on the 12th October 2010
The Body Volume Index (BVI) is a proposed new and improved international anthropometric benchmark for healthcare and obesity measurement.
Using a 3D scanner as opposed to manual measurements, BVI is specifically designed to calculate risk factors associated with a person's body shape and type, through analysis of weight and body fat distribution.
BVI is designed to be a potential replacement to the Body Mass Index; BMI being the current recognised standard for measurement of the human body for obesity.
BMI, being based only on height and weight fails to take into account age, gender, body shape or body composition; all crucial factors when looking at obesity designation and associated health risks for the individual. Obesity statistics don’t always tell the full story of BMI and how it reflects obesity in the UK. Measuring obesity should be about accuracy, consistency and speed of delivery which BMI data collected manually at source simply can’t deliver in this technical age.
