1968 Volume 12 Issue 4 Pages 245-248
The HST index has widely been used to measure the condition of blood circulation. The relationship between the index and the actual condition of blood circulation, however, was not clearly known. Thus we have reexamined this relationship. We have found that the index is closely related to the low degree of the normal pulse, but not so closely to the fast recovery of pulse after exercise, and that there were several distinct types of pulse-recovering-processes.