- BBC Midlands Today - New obesity measure trialled
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- BBC World Service
- Birmingham Post - 28th January 2008
- Body Volume Index attains EU wide trademark
- Child Volunteers Required!
- Daily Express - "A Weighty Matter"
- Fight Against Childhood Obesity comes to Longbridge Innovation Centre
- First Clinical Results indicate "significant advantages over BMI"
- Five TV - new weight measurement
- News update !
- Photographs taken at the press launch in London
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- Select Research Tackles Women's Weight Issues - Birmingham Post - 15th April 2008
- Sky News - weighting over for fatties
- The Daily Telegraph - "Kiss the Body Mass Index goodbye"
- The Independent - "Body Volume Index (BVI): At last, a more accurate picture of body fat"
- UK and US Collaboration on Obesity Research
- Validation of Body Volume Index for Childhood Obesity underway....
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- Data collection of NHS clinical trial completed
- Body Volume Index (BVI) launch in London
First Clinical Results indicate "significant advantages over BMI"
The first clinical research for the validation of BVI has now been undertaken by Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham, part of the Heart of England NHS Trust, which houses one of the largest obesity clinics in the UK.
Dr Asad Rahim, Consultant Endocrinologist at Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham and leader of the research team for the project presented the results of the trial for the initial BVI validation at The Royal College of General Practitioners in London. The data from Heartlands are the first to be presented on BVI as part of the two-year trial.
The initial research by Heartlands Hospital on Body Benchmark will be followed by a secondary, larger research programme for BVI in adults, to be undertaken by a large medical research organisation, plus benchmarking of BVI for Childhood Obesity by a leading University. These initiatives will be announced in February 2008.