BWA, Body Water Analyzing Brand Launched While Introducing High-end Body Composition Analyzer, InBody970…Presenting New Services and Indicator
[의학신문·일간보사=김원준 기자] InBody(CEO Cha Ki-cheol), a brand with global credibility for its body composition analysis standard will launch its body water analysis brand, BWA(Body Water Analyzer) and unveil its high-end body composition analyzer, InBody970, during Korea’s largest medical device exposition, the Korea International Medical and Hospital Equipment Show 2019.
With this, the company aims to present new services and indicators by focusing on the fundamental technologies that it is most proud of, body composition and water analysis.
■ Experts tell with numbers
InBody’s technology of measuring body water is used in various areas that require expertise including dialysis, rehabilitation and nutrition. It also present a new indicator in the conventional diagnosis method that is prone to radiation exposure risks or relies on the senses.
InBody unveils its brand specializing in body water analysis, BWA to enable experts to provide sophisticated services to the patients by identifying their conditions using numbers and to provide regular management.
■ BWA2.0, new standard in body water analysis
BWA2.0 uses patented dual clamp poles to provide 16 touch screen monitor, twice the amount of conventional method The dual clamp structure with four electrodes act as an indicator that enables the device to identify the measurement location consistently, there by granting higher reproduction.
The 16 electrodes can be used as clinical indexes like assessing the state of edema using the differences of the impedance that is measured twice from the wrist and ankle.
InBody was the world’s first company to use eight frequencies ranging from 1KHz to superhigh frequency of 3MHz to enhance the accuracy rate in measurement of patients with a severe level of edema through Multi-reactance(5KHz, 50KHz, 250KHz), Multi-phase angle(5KHz, 50KHz, 250KHz) and phase angle by area.
Considering the conditions of various patients, users can input amputation information so that the device can be used to measure body water for patients with amputation. It can also easily calculate the target body weight for patients who need body water adjustment to grant users with convenience when monitoring and managing body water level.
Moreover, results of newly unveiled research is provided in the form of graphs for each area and thesis papers, so that researchers can look at the major items that they use the most in just a single glance. The research done on patients by age was conducted on 13 million InBody big data to enable users to identify the one’s current body water conditions in comparison to the same age group.
High-end body composition analyzer, InBody970 is a high-end product manufactured by InBody, global top player in the sector, and it has upgraded its quality by another step. The device is different beginning from its design. It was designed by considering the various body sizes of users around the world. It is exported to some 90 countries, and it can be used to measure foreign patients, whose number is on the rise even in Korea as well as those who have been diagnosed as extremely obese.
Like BWA, it also provides a total of eight types of report papers utilizing the eight frequencies, from 1KHz to 3MHz. InBody and body water analysis reports can be utilized as indexes to assess the health of cell walls and level of severity as it enables uses to monitor phase angle of the body by area.
The report also includes research paper for researchers, evaluation paper by age that enables users to see their status comparatively as well as comparison paper that can be used to easily identify the different of before and after certain diagnosis.
Yscope, an option device, can also help users to check visceral fat by displaying the abdominal fat more accurately. World’s first-ever portable BIA visceral fat measuring equipment, Yscope, uses the same BIA method as InBody to measure abdominal fat including visceral and subcutaneous fat.
Yscope, which is non-invasive and free of radiation exposure, can be used with no restrictions on area, location and gesture. It can be connected to InBody970 to enable users to monitor significant indexes including the amount of subcutaneous fat, visceral fat, rate of abdominal fat and to manage visceral fat, which is the major cause of contemporary diseases.
■ InBody vs Non-InBody
InBody developer is responsible for all steps from the beginning to the end of measurement. InBody producer is responsible for the entire production procedure from the head to the foot rest. The developer is proud of the product he or she makes while the producer engraves his or her name on the product.
In other words, InBody experts who are in charge of the top and best firm within the international body composition industry are fully focused on the product. This is where the fundamental difference between InBodyand non-InBody arises.