Patent ID: 6669646
Filing Date: 2003-12-30
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
An arteriosclerosis evaluating apparatus, comprising:a left-superior-limb-blood-pressure measuring device which measures, with a cuff, a left-superior-limb blood pressure of a left superior limb of a living subject; a right-superior-limb-blood-pressure measuring device which measures, with a cuff, a right-superior-limb blood pressure of a right superior limb of the subject; a left-and-right-superior-limb-blood-pressure-ratio determining means for determining a left-and-right-superior-limb blood-pressure ratio as a ratio between the left-superior-limb blood pressure measured by the left-superior-limb-blood-pressure measuring device and the right-superior-limb blood pressure measured by the right-superior-limb-blood-pressure measuring device; a pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related-information obtaining device which obtains at least one set of pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related information that is related to at least one velocity at which at least one pulse wave propagates in at least one of (a) a first body portion of the subject that includes at least a portion of the left superior limb and (b) a second body portion of the subject that includes at least a portion of the right superior limb; and a display device which displays the left-and-right-superior-limb blood-pressure ratio determined by the left-and-right-superior-limb-blood-pressure-ratio determining means, and said at least one set of pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related information obtained by the pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related-information obtaining device, such that the left-and-right-superior-limb blood-pressure ratio and said at least one set of pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related information are comparable with each other by a person.