Patent ID: 7914449

Claim:
A diagnostic support system for diabetes comprising: an input device for inputting diagnostic data to a predicting device including clinical testing data of a patient, wherein the predicting device predicts parameter values suited for the patient based on the diagnostic data and a biological model, the biological model having parameters and which represent an organ function related to diabetes as a numerical model, wherein the biological model includes pancreas, liver, and peripheral tissue models, and the pancreas model represents insulin secretion, the liver model represents glucose uptake and production, and the peripheral tissue model represents glucose metabolism through insulin, and wherein the biological model comprises parameters which respectively represent non-insulin-dependent glucose metabolism rate, basal glucose level, insulin uptake function at the insulin action site, insulin consumption rate relative to an insulin dependent glucose metabolism, basal insulin concentration, amount of insulin consumed per unit time, insulin secretion sensitivity relative to glucose stimulation, and blood glucose level threshold at which insulin secretion begins; a pathological condition analyzer for determining a diabetic pathological condition of a patient based on the parameter values predicted by the predicting device; a memory for storing a plurality of diagnostic support data including a treatment policy corresponding to each of a plurality of pathological conditions; a diagnostic support information generator for generating diagnostic support information including a hypothetical treatment policy corresponding to the diabetic pathological condition by searching the memory; a treatment simulator that operatively processes the parameter values predicted by the predicting device and a hypothetical treatment from the hypothetical treatment policy received from the diagnostic support information generator and the biological model, respectively, wherein the treatment simulator simulates effects of the treatment of the hypothetical treatment policy; and a diagnostic support information outputting unit for outputting information obtained by the diagnostic support information generator and information obtained by the treatment simulator.