Abstract: An apparatus for diagnosing an angiopathy of a living subject, including a first pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related-information obtaining device which obtains a first pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related information that is related to a first velocity at which a first pulse wave propagates through a first interval of the subject, a second pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related-information obtaining device which obtains, at a substantially same time as a time when the first pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related-information obtaining device obtains the first pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related information, a second pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related information that is related to a second velocity at which a second pulse wave propagates through a second interval of the subject that is different from the first interval, and a comparison-value calculating device for calculating a comparison value based on the first pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related information and the second pulse-wave-p

Abstract: A dialyzing apparatus includes a dialyzer which removes water from blood of a patient at a water-remove rate during a dialysis operation, a blood-pressure-change-related-information obtaining device which obtains a plurality of sorts of blood-pressure-change-related information each of which is related to a change of a blood pressure of the patient during the dialysis operation, and a water-remove-rate control device which controls the water-remove rate of the dialyzer, based on the plurality of sorts of blood-pressure-change-related information, according to a predetermined control manner.

Abstract: A dialyzing apparatus includes a dialyzer which removes water from blood of a patient at a pre-set water-remove rate, an autonomic-nerve-activity-related-information obtaining device which obtains autonomic-nerve-activity-related information that is related to an activity of an autonomic nerve of the patient, and a water-remove-rate display device which displays a target water-remove rate based on the autonomic-nerve-activity-related information obtained by the autonomic-nerve-activity related-information obtaining device.

Abstract: A plurality of physical information obtaining devices 10 and a statistical medical information providing apparatus 16 are connected to each other via a communication line 18, so that a set of measurement information including a set of physical information obtained by each of the physical information obtaining devices 10 from a patient, a set of device-related information that is related to the each obtaining device, and a set of patient-related information that is related to the patient, is transmitted to the providing apparatus 16. The statistical medical information providing apparatus 16 accumulates, one by one, the sets of measurement information transmitted from the physical information obtaining devices 10, in a measurement-information data base 34 of a memory device 32, and produces a set of statistical medical information based on the sets of measurement information stored in the data base 34.

Abstract: An oscillometric automatic blood-pressure measuring apparatus, including an inflatable cuff which is adapted to be wound around a portion of a living subject, so as to detect respective amplitudes of a plurality of heartbeat-synchronous pulses of a cuff pulse wave as an oscillatory component that is produced in the cuff in synchronism with heartbeats of the subject in a cuff-pressure change process in which a cuff pressure as a pressure in the cuff is changed, a cuff-pulse-wave-amplitude correcting device for correcting the respective amplitudes of the respective pulses of the cuff pulse wave, according to a predetermined non-linear relationship between difference between cuff pressure and subject's mean blood pressure, and amplitude of cuff pulse wave, and a blood-pressure determining device for determining a blood pressure of the subject based on a change of the corrected amplitudes of the cuff pulse wave.

Abstract: An ankle-blood-pressure measuring apparatus for measuring a blood pressure of an ankle of a living subject, including an inflatable cuff which is adapted to be worn on the ankle of the subject; a cuff-pressure changing device which decreases a pressure in the cuff from a pressure higher than a systolic blood pressure of the ankle; a distal-pulse-wave detecting device which is adapted to be worn on a distal portion of the subject that is located on a distal side of the ankle and detects a distal pulse wave produced from the distal portion; an increasing-point detecting device for detecting at least one increasing point where a magnitude of the distal pulse wave continuously detected by the distal-pulse-wave detecting device when the pressure of the cuff is decreased by the cuff-pressure changing device, significantly increases; and an ankle-blood-pressure determining device which determines a pressure of the cuff when the increasing-point detecting device detects the second increasing point, as a systolic bloo

Abstract: An arteriosclerosis evaluating apparatus for evaluating an arteriosclerosis of a living subject based on a form of a pulse wave detected from the subject, the apparatus including an inflatable cuff which is adapted to be worn on a body portion of the subject, a cuff-pressure changing device which changes a pressure in the cuff, a cuff-pulse-wave detecting device which detects a cuff pulse wave as a pressure oscillation that is transmitted from the subject to the cuff, and an output device which outputs the cuff pulse wave detected by the cuff-pulse-wave detecting device in a state in which the pressure of the cuff is made higher than a systolic blood pressure of the body portion of the subject by the cuff-pressure changing device.

Abstract: A blood pressure measuring apparatus, including a cuff adapted to be worn on a body portion of a living subject, and determining a blood pressure value of the subject based on a signal obtained from the cuff when a pressure in the cuff is changed, wherein the apparatus includes: a cuff pulse wave detecting device which detects a cuff pulse wave as a pulse wave produced from an artery of the subject and transmitted to the cuff, the cuff pulse wave comprising at least one heartbeat-synchronous pulse produced from the artery in synchronism with at least one heartbeat of the subject; a converting device which converts, based on the blood pressure value determined by the apparatus, a magnitude of each point of the heartbeat-synchronous pulse of the cuff pulse wave, into a pressure value; and a pseudo-pressure-pulse-wave determining device which determines a pseudo pressure pulse wave by correcting the respective pressure values of the respective points of the pulse, provided by the converting device, according to

Abstract: A blood-pressure monitoring apparatus for use with a dialyzing device, including a blood-pressure-related-information obtaining device which iteratively obtains, from a patient who is undergoing a dialysis operation of the dialyzing device, a piece of blood-pressure-related information that can change in relation with a blood pressure of the patient, a change-value determining device, a memory device which stores, for the patient, a plurality of prescribed threshold values corresponding to a plurality of prescribed periods of an entire duration of the dialysis operation, and a judging device for judging that the blood pressure of the patient is abnormal.

Abstract: A superior-limb arteriostenosis evaluating apparatus, including a superior-limb pulse-wave detecting device which detects a superior-limb pulse wave produced from an artery of at least one of a left superior limb and a right superior limb of a living subject, an inferior-limb pulse-wave detecting device which detects an inferior-limb pulse wave produced from an artery of at least one of a left inferior limb and a right inferior limb of the subject, and an arteriostenosis judging device for judging whether the artery of at least one of the left and right superior limbs has an arteriostenosis, based on a phase difference between the superior-limb pulse wave detected by the superior-limb pulse-wave detecting device and the inferior-limb pulse wave detected by the inferior-limb pulse-wave detecting device.

Abstract: An arteriosclerosis-degree evaluating apparatus, including a blood-pressure measuring device which iteratively measures a blood pressure value of a living subject, a pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related-information obtaining device which iteratively obtains, at substantially a same time as a time when the blood-pressure measuring device measures each blood pressure value of the living subject, a piece of pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related information that is related to a velocity at which a pulse wave propagates through an artery of the subject, and an output device which outputs a change of the pieces of pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related information iteratively obtained by the pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related-information obtaining device, relative to a change of the blood pressure values iteratively measured by the blood-pressure measuring device.

Abstract: An apparatus for evaluating a degree of arteriosclerosis of a living subject, the apparatus including a blood-pressure measuring device which measures a systolic and a diastolic blood pressure of the subject, a pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related-information obtaining device which obtains pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related information that is related to a velocity at which a pulse wave propagates through an artery of the subject, a display device, and a control device which controls the display device to display, in a two-dimensional graph defined by a first axis indicative of blood pressure and a second axis indicative of pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related information, at least one symbol indicating two positions one of which corresponds to the systolic blood pressure measured by the blood-pressure measuring device and the pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related information obtained by the pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related-information obtaining device, and the other of which corresponds t

Abstract: An advertising method, including the step of displaying, during a blood-pressure measuring operation of an automatic blood-pressure measuring apparatus including an inflatable cuff and a display device, an advertisement on the display device.

Abstract: A vital-information obtaining apparatus including a cuff to be worn on a predetermined portion of a living subject, a cuff-pressure control device operable to control an inflation pressure of the cuff, a cuff-pulse-wave detecting device operable to detect a cuff pulse wave which is a pressure pulsation transmitted from the living subject to the cuff, and a vital-information determining device operable while an inflation pressure of the cuff is held at a value higher than a systolic blood pressure of the subject under the control of the cuff-pressure control device, and wherein the vital-information determining means determines vital information of the subject, on the basis of a notch of the cuff pulse wave detected by the cuff-pulse-wave detecting device.

Abstract: A vascular-endothelial-cell-function evaluating apparatus including a pressing device including a cuff that is adapted to be worn on a first portion of a living subject, and a cuff-pressure changing device that changes a pressure in the cuff so as to press the first portion of the subject in a pressing period, a pulse-wave detecting device that detects a pulse wave including a plurality of heartbeat-synchronous pulses, from the first portion of the subject, or a second portion of the subject located on a distal side of the first portion, and a pulse-wave-second-half-information obtaining device that obtains a plurality of sets of pulse-wave-second-half information that represent respective characteristics of respective second-half portions of respective heartbeat-synchronous pulses of the pulse wave that are detected by the pulse-wave detecting device at respective different times, the respective second-half portions of the respective heartbeat-synchronous pulses being respective portions of the respective pu

Abstract: An apparatus for measuring an inferior-and-superior-limb blood-pressure index of a living subject, including an inferior-limb blood-pressure measuring device which measures an inferior-limb blood pressure of an inferior limb of the subject, a superior-limb blood-pressure measuring device which measures a superior-limb blood pressure of a superior limb of the subject, an inferior-and-superior-limb blood-pressure index determining device for determining the inferior-and-superior-limb blood-pressure index based on the inferior-limb blood pressure measured by the inferior-limb blood-pressure measuring device and the superior-limb blood pressure measured by the superior-limb blood-pressure measuring device, a heartbeat-synchronous-signal detecting device which detects a heartbeat-synchronous signal that is produced from the subject, a pulse-period-related-information obtaining device for obtaining, based on the heartbeat-synchronous signal detected by the heartbeat-synchronous-signal detecting device, pulse-period

Abstract: An apparatus for detecting a heart sound of a living subject, including a pressure-pulse-wave sensor which is adapted to be worn on a body portion of the subject that is distant from a chest of the subject, detects a pressure pulse wave produced by an artery of the body portion, and generates a pressure-pulse-wave signal representing the detected pressure pulse wave; and a heart-sound extracting device for extracting, from the pressure-pulse-wave signal generated by the pressure-pulse-wave sensor, a heart-sound component representing the heart sound of the subject.

Abstract: An apparatus for evaluating a degree of arteriosclerosis of a living subject, including: a pulse-wave detecting device adapted to be worn on a first portion of the living subject; a pressing device adapted to be worn on a second portion of the subject located on a distal side of the first portion, for pressing the second portion so as to restrict a flow of blood at the second portion; and an arteriosclerosis-related information obtaining device which obtains arteriosclerosis-related information used for evaluating said degree of arteriosclerosis of the subject, based on a peak point of an incident-wave component, and a peak point of a reflected-wave component, of a pulse of a pulse wave that is detected by the pulse-wave detecting device in a state in which the flow of blood is restricted by the pressing device.

Abstract: An augmentation-index determining apparatus, including a cuff, a cuff-pressure changing device which changes a pressing pressure of the cuff, a pulse-wave extracting device which extracts a pulse wave from the cuff, a peak-occurrence-time determining device for determining, based on a high-cuff-pressure pulse wave which is extracted by the pulse-wave extracting device when the cuff-pressure changing device makes the pressing pressure of the cuff higher than a systolic blood pressure of a subject, a time of occurrence of a peak point of an incident-wave component of the high-cuff-pressure pulse and a time of occurrence of a peak point of a reflected-wave component of the high-cuff-pressure pulse wave, and an augmentation-index determining device for determining, based on the respective times of occurrence of the respective peak points of the incident-wave and reflected-wave components of the high-cuff-pressure pulse, respective times of occurrence of respective peak points of incident-wave and reflected-wave c

Abstract: A blood pressure measuring apparatus, including a cuff adapted to be worn on a body portion of a living subject, and determining a blood pressure value of the subject based on a signal obtained from the cuff when a pressure in the cuff is changed, wherein the apparatus includes: a cuff pulse wave detecting device which detects a cuff pulse wave as a pulse wave produced from an artery of the subject and transmitted to the cuff, the cuff pulse wave comprising at least one heartbeat-synchronous pulse produced from the artery in synchronism with at least one heartbeat of the subject; a converting device which converts, based on the blood pressure value determined by the apparatus, a magnitude of each point of the heartbeat-synchronous pulse of the cuff pulse wave, into a pressure value; and a pseudo-pressure-pulse-wave determining device which determines a pseudo pressure pulse wave by correcting the respective pressure values of the respective points of the pulse, provided by the converting device, according to