MEDICAL DEVICE COMPRISING AN IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT MEANS TO MEASURE VISCERAL FAT.

摘要

Medical device (2) comprising an impedance measurement means connected to at least two intracorporeale measurement electrodes (6, 8) arranged to measure the impedance of a tissue object (10) inside the body of a patient. The impedance measurement means is adapted to apply a measurement current/voltage signal to the electrodes to measure and calculate the impedance of the measurement tissue object, and to apply the calculated impedance value to a storage means. The stored impedance values are used, by an analysing means, to measure the amount of visceral fat of the tissue object inside the body of the patient.