An apparatus for measuring an inferior-and-superior-limb blood-pressure
index of a patient, including an inferior-limb blood-pressure measuring
device, a superior-limb blood-pressure measuring device, an index
determining device for determining the inferior-and-superior-limb
blood-pressure index, based on a blood pressure of an inferior limb
measured by the inferior-limb blood-pressure measuring device and a blood
pressure of a superior limb measured by the superior-limb blood-pressure
measuring device, an
inferior-limb-pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related-information,
obtaining device which obtains
inferior-limb-pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related information, an
upper-half-body-pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related-information
obtaining device which obtains
upper-half-body-pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related information, and
an evaluation-information obtaining device for obtaining, based on the
inferior-limb-pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related information and the
upper-half-body-pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related information,
evaluation information that is related to evaluation of reliability of the
inferior-and superior-limb blood-pressure index.
