PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a biological state monitoring apparatus capable of accurately determining the degree of danger in biological information of a user.SOLUTION: The biological state monitoring apparatus 1 includes biological information acquiring means 13, 15 acquiring biological information including an electrocardiographic waveform and a pulse wave from the user an arrhythmia detecting means 7 for detecting arrhythmia from the electrocardiographic waveform a pulse wave feature quantity extracting means 7 extracting a pulse wave feature quantity from the pulse wave corresponding to the arrhythmia and a biological state determining means 7 determining the degree of danger in the biological state of the user using (A) the kind and/or time of the arrhythmia detected by the arrhythmia detecting means 7 and (B) the pulse wave feature quantity extracted by the pulse wave feature quantity extracting means 7, and/or a variation of the extracted pulse wave feature quantity.COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT【課題】ユーザの生体情報における危険度を正確に判断することができる生体状態監視装置を提供すること。【解決手段】ユーザから心電波形及び脈波を含む生体情報を取得する生体情報取得手段13、15と、前記心電波形から不整脈を検出する不整脈検出手段7と、前記不整脈に対応する脈波から脈波特徴量を抽出する脈波特徴量抽出手段7と、(A)前記不整脈検出手段7で検出した不整脈の種類及び/又は時間、及び(B)前記脈波特徴量抽出手段7により抽出した脈波特徴量又はその変化量を用いて、ユーザの生体状態における危険度を判定する生体状態判断手段7と、を備えることを特徴とする生体状態監視装置1。【選択図】図1