Patent ID: 6643542
Filing Date: 2003-11-04
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
A health condition judgment display device comprising:an input means with which individual body characteristic information of a body of a human subject is input; a measuring means for measuring body measurement information obtained by measurement made for the body of the human subject; a data processing portion capable of storing body information including the individual body characteristic information of the body input with the input means and the body measurement information measured by the measuring means and obtaining an index relating to health condition of the body of the human subject by data processing based on the stored body information; and a display means capable of displaying the body information including the individual body characteristic information and the body measurement information and the obtained index relating to health condition, wherein at least two indices relating to health condition are obtained, the measuring means includes a body impedance measuring means capable of measuring body impedance of the entire body and/or each portion of the body, the body measurement information includes the body impedance of each portion of the body and/or the entire body, the individual body characteristic information includes body height, body weight, age, and sex, the body information includes information of body fat mass, body fat ratio, fat-free mass, body water mass, and muscle mass of each of the body and/or the entire body, which are obtained based on the body height, the body weight, the age, the sex, and the body impedance of each portion of the body and/or the entire body, the body information includes waist size, hip size, subcutaneous fat thickness, abdomen visceral fat sectional area, abdomen subcutaneous fat sectional area, and thigh muscle sectional area, the indices relating to health condition further include a body mass index (BMI), a ratio of the waist size to the hip size (W/H ratio), a ratio of the visceral fat to the subcutaneous fat (V/S ratio), a ratio of the body fat mass to the body water mass, a ratio of the body water mass to the body weight, and a ratio of the body fat ratio to leg muscle mass, and the indices relating to health condition further include abdomen visceral fat sectional area, waist size, and odds ratio.