Patent ID: 6865415

Claim:
A visceral fat determining device comprising: input means for inputting personal data including at least an abdominal girth W L which is a circumferential length of a trunk of a patient and a gluteal girth H L which is a circumferential length of buttocks of the patient; a data processing unit for storing the personal data and for calculating quantitative information on abdominal visceral fat of the patient including an estimated value of an abdominal visceral fat cross-sectional area VA of the patient based on the personal data; and a display device for displaying the personal data and a result of the calculation performed by the data processing unit; wherein the data processing unit stores at least one regression coefficient of WHR and a regression constant, WHR being a ratio (W L /H L ) of an abdominal girth W L to an gluteal girth H L , the regression coefficient and the regression constant being obtained from statistical processing based on actual measurement values of the abdominal visceral fat cross sectional area VA measured in abdominal tomography of human bodies of random samples and respective WHR values of the human samples, the data processing unit calculating the estimated value of abdominal visceral fat cross sectional area VA of the patient based on a WHR value of the patient, the regression constant of said WHR and the regression coefficient.