Patent ID: 6730039
Filing Date: 2004-05-04
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
An arteriosclerosis-degree evaluating apparatus, comprising:a blood-pressure measuring device which iteratively measures a blood pressure value of a living subject; a pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related-information obtaining device which iteratively obtains, at substantially a same time as a time when the blood-pressure measuring device measures each blood pressure value of the living subject, a piece of pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related information that is related to a velocity at which a pulse wave propagates through an artery of the subject; and an output device which outputs a change of the pieces of pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related information iteratively obtained by the pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related-information obtaining device, relative to a change of the blood pressure values iteratively measured by the blood-pressure measuring device, wherein the output device displays, in a two-dimensional graph defined by an axis indicative of blood pressure and an axis of pulse-wave propagation velocity, a symbol at a position corresponding to each of the blood pressure values iteratively measured by the blood-pressure measuring device and a corresponding one of the pieces of pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related information iteratively obtained by the pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related-information obtaining device.