Weight Loss
Weight Loss: Better with the BodyLogic Scan
The BodyLogic scan, available on the Horizon DXA system, serves as an additional tool to monitor and enhance your weight loss and weight management programs. When used in conjunction with weight management programs, data from the BodyLogic scan can be used to help you lose body fat, not muscle mass, for a more successful and healthier long-term weight loss plan.
The Horizon DXA system offers a series of reports that can aid trainers, coaches, doctors and nutritionists in developing effective weight loss programs for you. These include:
- The Advanced Body Composition® Report: This report visually presents data from BodyLogic scans in a series of easy-to-read graphical presentations, which are available immediately and use color mapping to identify fat, lean muscle mass and bone.
- The Rate-of-Change Report: This is a key report available with multiple BodyLogic scans that visually displays changes in a patient’s body over time, enabling patients and clinicians to assess and adjust treatment programs. Through regularly scheduled BodyLogic scans, a physician can see if the weight loss is from fat stores – or from muscle.
The BodyLogicTM scan, available on the HorizonTM DXA system, provides a more accurate picture of muscle, bone and fat mass to aid in the development of customized weight loss programs.
The InnerCoreTM Visceral Adipose Tissue (VAT) Assessment, which is available with the BodyLogic scan, provides a more convenient way to estimate a patient’s visceral fat in the abdominal region. Deep visceral fat is metabolically active and is often associated with diseases like diabetes, hypertension, impaired fasting glucose, impaired glucose tolerance and metabolic syndrome. Fortunately, the BodyLogic scan can distinguish between visceral fat and subcutaneous fat, giving clinicians a unique understanding of the potential diseases that
could be putting their patients at risk. BodyLogic scans, available on the Horizon DXA system, are substantially equivalent to computed tomography in measuring visceral fat, with the advantages of being more accessible, less costly and delivering a small fraction of the radiation dose (1).
Footnotes
1. Practical and Technical Advantages of DXA Visceral Fat Assessment Compared with Computed Tomography, Thomas L. Kelly, Senior Principal Scientist Hologic, Inc.
2. Courtesy of M. Punyanitya, Image Reading Center, New York, NY