A visceral fat scale equipped with a sphygmomanometer is described, with which
a subject can keep track of blood pressure values and grasp the state of obesity
to attain more accurate, comprehensive and diversified diagnoses and disease prevention.
The visceral fat scale is designed such that after exerting pressure to an artery
of a subject by inflation of a cuff, a pulse wave signal is detected in the course
of gradual cuff deflation and blood pressure is obtained based on the detected
pulse wave signal. The scale comprises an increment/decrement key and display mode
selector key for inputting personal data of the subject; an arithmetic operation
unit for calculating the amount of visceral fat of the subject based on data input
by these keys; and a display unit for displaying a result of the calculation performed
by the arithmetic operation unit.
