Patent ID: 8684928

Claim:
A method of symmetric health state determination, monitoring, and intervention, comprising: measuring one or more symmetric vital signs of a subject by using a symmetric vital sign measuring device, wherein said symmetric vital sign measuring device comprises: at least one pair of sensors for measuring at least one vital sign as input for computing a symmetric vital sign value; a processing unit capable of continuously receiving sensor inputs and configured to perform the steps of: computing a time series of the symmetric vital sign values; and determining a vitality state vector in a multidimensional hyperspace by taking the symmetric vital signs as state variables for the vector, wherein the values of symmetric vital signs are computed by taking the difference between a pair of vital sign values from a pair of symmetric counter-part locations on the subject's body; a display unit for displaying the symmetric vital sign values and a representation of the vitality state vector, wherein said sensors and display unit are operatively linked to the processing unit; and determining a vitality state for the subject based on the symmetric vital signs.