Report on changes over time in blood vessel elasticity indexes and bioinformation output apparatus
AssigneeFukuda Denshi Co., Ltd.
InventorsTsuneo Suzuki, Norio Sato
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Abstract
A report on changes over time is generated and outputted that presents, in addition to the changes of blood vessel elasticity indexes, the changes over time of other measured values of bioinformation related to vascular disease such as a blood pressure value in time series. This report is useful for a diagnosis with respect to vascular disease from various aspects.
Claims10
A method of reporting changes over time in blood vessel elasticity indexes to present the changes over time of measured results of blood vessel elasticity indexes with respect to a common subject, comprising:
- providing a graph area with a horizontal axis representing time and a vertical axis representing values of blood vessel elasticity indexes;
- plotting in time series each of the blood vessel elasticity indexes by positioning a first indicator at a coordinate defined by a measured time and a value in the graph area;
- plotting in time series a measured value of bioinformation relative to vascular disease other than the blood vessel elasticity index and measured together with the blood vessel elasticity index in the graph area in association with the corresponding blood vessel elasticity index;
- representing the measured value of bioinformation by another vertical axis of the graph area;
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- plotting the measured value of bioinformation with a second indicator located close to the first indicator of the corresponding blood vessel elasticity index and on a coordinate corresponding to the measured value of bioinformation.
A bioinformation output apparatus, comprising:
- obtaining means for obtaining from a storage device, measured values of at least a blood vessel elasticity index and other bioinformation related to one or more vascular diseases which are measured in a common subject;
- report generating means for generating a report on changes over time in the blood vessel elasticity index;
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- outputting means for outputting the generated report on the changes over time in blood vessel elasticity indexes,
- wherein the report generating means generates a report on changes over time in blood vessel elasticity indexes by providing a graph area with a horizontal axis representing time and a vertical axis representing values of blood vessel elasticity indexes, plotting in time series each of the blood vessel elasticity indexes by positioning a first indicator at a coordinate defined by a measured time and a value in the graph are, plotting in time series a measured value of bioinformation relative to vascular disease other than the blood vessel elasticity index and measured together with the blood vessel elasticity index in the graph area in association with the corresponding blood vessel elasticity index, representing the measured value of bioinformation by another vertical axis of the graph area, and plotting the measured value of bioinformation with a second indicator located close to the first indicator of the corresponding blood vessel elasticity index and on a coordinate corresponding to the measured value of bioinformation.
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