PURPOSE: An apparatus and a method for measuring the degree of vascular stiffness are provided to measure both blood pressure and the degree of vascular stiffness by using the wave pattern of a biosignal acquired by a non-invasive blood pressure measuring part.CONSTITUTION: An apparatus for measuring the degree of vascular stiffness comprises a non-invasive blood pressure (NIBP) part (110) for detecting the wave pattern of a biosignal according to the pressure of a cuff a blood pressure measuring part (120) for measuring blood pressure during contraction, blood pressure during relaxation and average blood pressure an accelerated phtoplethysmograph (APG) detecting part (130) for detecting an APG wave pattern by using the wave pattern of a biosignal according to the pressure of the cuff and a vascular stiffness estimating part (140) for calculating parameters necessary to the estimation of the degree of vascular stiffness from an APG wave pattern in each range. The vascular stiffness estimating part estimates the degree of vascular stiffness corresponding to the parameters calculated by referring to standard parameters according to each degree of vascular stiffness.COPYRIGHT KIPO 2013[Reference numerals] (110) NIBP part (120) Blood pressure measuring part (130) APG detecting part (140) Vascular stiffness estimating part혈관 경화도 측정 장치는 사용자가 착용한 커프에 압력을 가하고 이완시켜서 검출되는 커프의 압력에 따른 생체 신호 파형을 이용하여 혈압을 검출하고, 커프의 압력에 따른 생체 신호 파형을 2차 미분하여 가속도 맥파를 검출한 후 가속도 맥파를 이용하여 사용자의 혈관 경화도를 예측한다.
