[A new index of acceleration plethysmogram and its clinical physiological evaluation]

The purposes of the present study were to examine a new index of acceleratingly plethysmogram (APG) and to discuss the possibility to apply the APG index. One hundred sixty-three subjects voluntarily participated in the present study. The mean values (n = 10) of individual coefficient of variance were 7.22% in wave height B, 8.26% in the total area of the lower part under the base line, and 7.28% in a new APG index. The coefficient of variance in the APG index calculated from the previous method (18.67%) was larger than that of the present study. We recognized the significantly polynomial relationship between the new APG index and types of APG. Further, the value of new APG index remarkably increased when the index was beyond 50. There were significant differences in age, blood pressure, rate of body fat, blood glucose, total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, and index of arteriosclerosis between above 50 and below 50 in the new APG index. These results suggest that the present APG index is adequate about about the individual reproducibility, and it has the possibility to apply as an index of arteriosclerosis.