In an apparatus and method of noninvasively measuring a concentration of a
blood component, the method includes (a) varying a thickness of a body
part of a subject, measuring absorption spectrums at different
thicknesses of the body part, obtaining a first differential absorption
spectrum between the absorption spectrums measured at different
thicknesses, actually measuring concentrations of the blood component,
and establishing a statistical model using the first differential
absorption spectrum and the actually measured concentrations; and (b)
estimating the concentration of the blood component using a second
differential absorption spectrum obtained with respect to the body part
based on the statistical model.