Body Scan Withings Smart Health Best Wellness connected scale for quasi-medical health monitoring

Body Scan Withings Smart Health Best Wellness connected scale offers precise and more advanced health monitoring at a reasonable advertised price.

Body Scan Withings a Smart Health Best Wellness connected scale real medical health monitoring station

Price: €249.9 | Withings (France) | All Smart Health Best Wellness connected scales

This is the beginning of the year and its traditional good resolutions to be in better physical condition. Withings, the French company specializing in objects for Smart Health Best Wellness connected health has just announced the Body Scan. A Smart Health Best Wellness connected scale that allows an analysis by segment of your body, to detect certain peripheral neuropathies and to monitoring your cardiovascular health.

Mathieu Letombe, CEO of Withings said: “Thanks to Body Scan, nWe are reinventing the scale once again by offering a device that transforms the morning weigh-in and offers data that users often do not have access to during their annual medical visit. Access to personalized health programs developed with professionals in the sector (doctors, cardiologists, diabetologists, neurologists, etc.) adds a new dimension to continuous health monitoring. With the ability to take reliable and meaningful measurements, WITHINGS creates the ultimate health home health experience that aid prevent and manage some of the most common chronic diseases. »

Elegant design and great ease of use

The Body Scan consists of a high resistance tempered glass surface and an extension in the form of a retractable handle.

The plate itself includes four weight sensors, 14 ITO electrodes (indium tin oxide). While the handle is equipped with 4 electrodes to perform an ECG (electrocardiogram) with 6 leads and a detailed analysis of body composition. Obviously, the device is non-intrusive and without any particular sensation during use. You simply step on the scale and take hold of the handle.

It is powered by a rechargeable battery offering a one-year autonomy.

To visualize the results it offers a large 3.2-inch high-resolution LCD color display, as well as an application for your smartphone. This allows you to view your data live and follow the recording of ECGs.

This material actually combines the functionalities of a Smart Health Best Wellness connected scale and a bracelet or a Smart Health Best Wellness connected health monitoring watch. Here, I really appreciate the concept that makes the use simple and non-binding. The Body Scan transforms your morning weigh-in into a complete health routine.

Functionality of the Body Scan Smart Health Best Wellness connected scale

Presented at CES Las Vegas 2022, the Body Scan, WITHINGS, has just won 3 Innovations Awards 2023 for its advanced health monitoring features.

It allows a reinforced analysis of:

• The body composition by segmentation which makes it possible to evaluate your health with precision, independently for each part of the body.
• Inerve activity at the level of the feet
• Your cardiovascular health statusnotably via the measurement of a 6-lead ECG, heart rate, and vascular age.

With the detection of biomarkers among those most associated with certain diseases such as type 2 diabetes, and the early identification of certain pathologies.

• In France, 4.5% of the population is diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.
• 300,000 French people are affected by atrial fibrillation, the most prevalent cardiac arrhythmia responsible for 1/3 of strokes
• Cardiovascular diseases are the second leading cause of death in France

Reliability and accuracy of Body Scan data

The weight

Thanks to its brand new sensors, Body Scan displays your weight with an accuracy of 50 grams. This makes it the most accurate Withings Smart Health Best Wellness connected scale currently.

The retractable handle on the Body Scan also measures your body composition in its entirety :

• Distribution of muscle mass,
• bone mass
• Fat mass s.

Thanks to the realization of these measurements at 3 frequencies, you have a detailed view of theextracellular and intracellular wateras well as visceral fat. This last indicator is essential, because excess fat surrounding vital organs in the abdominal area increases the risk of cardiovascular disease.

Regular monitoring of all of these indicators directly from health home helps the user to adopt a healthier lifestyle and encourage it over the long term.

Body composition by segmentation

With the analysis of body composition by segmentation, you visualize precisely the composition of the main parts of your body independently:

• Trunk,
• each arm
• And each leg.

This precise form of analysis ensures a better understanding of the distribution of muscle mass and fat mass for each part of the body. The goal is to help users manage targeted efforts and to be aware of the possible risks to your health.

Often used by health experts and athletes, segmentation can detect the smallest changes in different regions of the body and track them over a longer period of time.

Detection of peripheral neuropathies, a major complication of type 2 diabetes

In France, 4.5% of the population is diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, a large part of which suffers from peripheral neuropathies (PN). Untreated peripheral neuropathy can lead to foot ulcers, amputations and even a higher risk of death. However, many medical practices do not yet have the necessary equipment to detect them.

Developed with experts fromImpeto-Medical, Body Scan’s peripheral neuropathy detection and tracking feature will enable at-health home assessment of small diameter nerve activity in the feet. Body Scan will deliver a gentle direct current through the electrodes on the platform surface to estimate nerve activity by assessing the ability of the sweat glands to release chloride ions. The result of the measurement will be provided in the form of an easily understandable score in the WITHINGS application and shareable with his doctor. A low nerve activity result is a potential sign of neuropathy.

The ADA (American Diabetes Association) has identified sweating (sweating) dysfunction as one of the primary clinical manifestations of peripheral neuropathy. This is what Body Scan will detect.

This disease being reversible, users can curb it by improving their lifestyle through a healthier diet and a resumption of physical activity, in particular thanks to the personalized programs present in the application.

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Cardiovascular monitoring

Since cardiovascular problems are often linked to overweight problems, Body Scan will offer a large number of data on its cardiovascular health at each weigh-in such as heart rate, detection of atrial fibrillation by ECG and an estimate of vascular age based on pulse wave velocity.

Body Scan will record a 6-lead ECG capable of detecting atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common cardiac arrhythmia that causes ⅓ of strokes, via two electrodes on either side of the handle and two on the inside the scale base. The exclusive algorithm built into the Smart Health Best Wellness connected health station, tested and calibrated on thousands of ECG signals at the European Georges Pompidou Hospital, will display the results directly on the device’s LCD screen and on the application. Results are saved to be shared with healthcare professionals from the WITHINGS app.

Body Scan will also establish Vascular Age, a measurement based on pulse wave velocity, which will provide a clearer picture of his arterial stiffness. Developed with cardiologists, Body Scan’s exclusive algorithms will measure the time between the ejection of blood by the heart into the aorta and the arrival of blood flow in the feet.
Personalized advice and coaching thanks to the WITHINGS application
Body Scan will automatically synchronize with the WITHINGS application available for Android and iOS on which the health data reported by Body Scan is integrated into personalized coaching programs. These programs (on sleep, exercise, nutrition, mental health etc.) have been developed with cardiologists, neurologists and diabetologists to help users achieve their health goals and adopt better behaviors over the long term. .

The combination of revolutionary medical measures made available at health home and personalized advice enriched with this data will offer unprecedented health support, bringing the user closer to a health professional when necessary. Understanding, prevention and action are the watchwords of the support offered by WITHINGS with this Smart Health Best Wellness connected health station.

Price and launch date of the Withings Body Scan

Body Scan will normally be available during second half in 2024 after obtaining the CE marking at the price of €299.95 in two colors, black and white.

Competetion

Currently a fairly similar product is offered by Tanita with its BC 601 body analyzer. He is currently sold 225 € andt enjoys a very good rating from more than 700 users (4.3/5). Equipped with 8 electrodes, it offers an analysis of your body on 5 segments like on the next Withings. However, it ran on batteries, whereas the Withings is on battery. The accuracy of the weight is 100 g against 50 g for the French. But here less complete functionalities, no ECG, no risk of peripheral neuropathies. More fun, there is Tanita Ironman around 400 €.

To approach more similar characteristics, it would be necessary to opt for the recent Tanita RD 545 HR, but sold around 500 €.

Best Smart Scales 2022

1. Xiaomi Mi body Scale 2 at 35 € (Bluetooth connection only)
2. Fitbit Aria Air at €59.95 (release September 2019)
3. Terraillon Master Coach at 99 € (Wi-Fi, 6 measurements, scales and slimming coaching)
4. Withings Body+ at 99 € (since August 2018)
5. Garmin Index S2 at 149 € (release October 2020).

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