PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device for evaluating vascular stiffness which can be inexpensive and miniaturized, and enable a user to easily measuring the vascular stiffness of a specific portion in an ordinary household, a method, and a program for evaluating vascular stiffness and to provide a computer-readable recording medium recording the vascular stiffness evaluation program.SOLUTION: In the device, a blood vessel is pressurized by a pressurizing means 11 while increasing or lowering pressure, and the pressure of the blood vessel during pressurization is measured by a measuring means 12. A mean pressure and a pressure amplitude which are measured by the measuring means 12 are obtained by a vascular pressure computing means 24 for each of stages of pressurization in the pressurizing means 11. The relationship between a characteristic index about a change in the pressure amplitude for the mean pressure and a stiffness parameter is obtained in advance by a model computing means 14 on the basis of model computation. The characteristic index is obtained by a vascular stiffness computing means 25, and the stiffness parameter is obtained from the characteristic index on the basis of the relationship obtained by the model computing means 14.COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT【課題】安価かつ小型化が可能で、特定部位の血管固さを一般家庭でも容易に測定して評価することができる血管固さ評価装置、血管固さ評価方法、血管固さ評価プログラムおよび、血管固さ評価プログラムを記録したコンピュータ読み取り可能な記録媒体を提供する。【解決手段】加圧手段11により、圧力を上げながらまたは圧力を下げながら血管を加圧し、測定手段12により、加圧中の血管の圧力を測定する。血管圧力計算手段24により、加圧手段11での圧力段階毎に、測定手段12で測定された血管の圧力の平均圧力と圧力振幅とを求める。モデル計算手段14により、あらかじめモデル計算により、平均圧力に対する圧力振幅の変化に関する特性指標とスティフネスパラメータとの関係を求めておく。血管固さ算出手段25により、特性指標を求め、モデル計算手段14で求められた関係に基づいて、その特性指標からスティフネスパラメータを求める。【選択図】図2
