Seca is the world’s market leader in medical measuring and weighing recognizes that Body Mass Index (BMI) alone is not enough for an extensive analysis of a patient’s health status and body composition. BMI calculations do not consider age, gender, frame size, muscle mass, or fat distribution. Nor does it distinguish between lean body mass and fat mass. This is exactly why seca has developed the medical Body Composition Analyzer, the seca mBCA 514.

BMI does not take into account body composition and does not differentiate between overall fat mass and muscle. Thus, BMI alone can lead to an inaccurate health risk assessment. The seca mBCA offers disease risk stratifications, precise monitoring of physiologic responses and compliance to therapy, and a comprehensive assessment of the general health and nutritional status that physicians and Registered Dietitians need to evaluate a patient’s fat distribution and total cardiovascular risk factors. Simple, fast, and user-friendly, the seca mBCA 514 produces medically relevant results and is validated against the medical science gold standard.