Patent ID: 11517207

Abstract:
A vascular baroreflex-related sympathetic activity (VBRSA) detection device, a VBRSA detection program, and a VBRSA detection method capable of detecting in a simple and non-invasive manner VBRSA, which is sympathetic nervous activity of a blood vessel involved in a baroreflex function, are provided. The VBRSA detection device detects the VBRSA based on pulse wave data on a biological artery and a beat interval corresponding to the pulse wave data. The VBRSA detection device includes a VBRSA-series detecting unit that detects, as a VBRSA series indicative of VBRSA, a series where, from among the series in which the beat interval increases or decreases by n (n is a natural number 3 or more) beats consecutively, a correlation coefficient for the beat interval and pulse wave data is greater than any positive threshold up to the (n-1)-th beat and the correlation coefficient at the n-th beat falls to or below the threshold.