Stroke Riskometer

Developed in collaboration with international leaders in stroke prevention, the Stroke Riskometer^TM app is an award winning and easy-to-use tool for measuring your individual risk of a stroke. The app is able to calculate your risk through evaluating a series of risk factors such as age, gender, ethnicity, lifestyle and other health factors that directly influence your likelihood of a stroke within the next five and ten years. It will supply essential information on how you can reduce your chance of having a stroke and will monitor your risk as you start to modify your personal risk factors. The app is suitable for people aged 20 - 90+.

Stroke Riskometer app videos

• About the Stroke Riskometer App
• How to enter information into the Stroke Riskometer App
• Managing your risks with the Stroke Riskometer App
• FAST – signs and symptoms of stroke
• Tracking your progress over time using the Stroke Riskometer App

Stroke Riskometer posters for pharmacists and GP clinics

Currently available cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk assessment algorithms allow calculation of absolute risk of CVD (including stroke) but they are designed for use by health professionals and require a lab test to complete. For an individual, one of the main challenges in effective stroke prevention is:

• Lack of awareness about stroke symptoms and risk factors
• Self-managing strategies to reduce their risk of stroke

We have developed the Stroke Riskometer which has the potential to significantly improve stroke prevention in individuals with an increased CVD risk.

The Stroke Riskometer calculates your risk by evaluating a series of risk factors such as age, gender, ethnicity, lifestyle and other health factors that directly influence your likelihood of a stroke within the next 5 and 10 years, and the user can:

• Find out their risk of developing a stroke
• Have a baseline risk to compare their risk against
• Compare details with someone of their age and sex who has no risk factors.

Why use the app?

Developed in collaboration with international leaders in stroke prevention, The Stroke Riskometer™ app:

• Is an award winning and easy-to-use tool
• Measures your individual risk of a stroke in the next 5 to 10 years

You can help us learn more by submitting your data to help us better understand stroke, its risk factors and develop global prevention strategies.

The app project already involves over 300 renowned stroke experts from 102 countries, making it the largest international collaborative mobile health project in the world.

The app is free of charge and available in 26 languages, meaning it is now available for 70% of the world's population (5.3 billion people). It is available from the App Store, or Google Play.

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Research projects including the app

The Neurological Foundation of New Zealand has recently awarded the NISAN team a grant of $180,000 for a 2-year project (2024-2026) looking at "Recalibration of a stroke prediction equation and disparities in stroke prevention in Aotearoa".

Led by Professor Valery Feigin, this project aims to (1) Recalibrate and validate the Stroke Riskometer/PreventS-MD prediction algorithm for first-ever strokes, (2) Develop and validate a new algorithm for recurrent strokes specific to NZ, and (3) To assess changes and disparities in CVD risk factor management in New Zealand's general practice over the preceding one and a half decades.

Find out more about clinical trials

RIBURST study

Users of the Stroke Riskometer app can elect to join the RiBURST international research study, where they can submit their data to help us better understand stroke, its risk factors and develop global prevention strategies.

Find out more about RIBURST

PreventS-MD webapp

The PreventS-MD webapp is built on the Stroke Riskometer mobile app but designed for clinicians who can use it in conjunction with the electronic patient management system of outpatient clinics and hospitals. By communicating with the electronic patient management system of the health provider it allows semi-automatic collection of information on stroke risk factors to calculate an absolute and relative 5-year risk of stroke and generate patient-tailored recommendations for primary and secondary stroke prevention for the individual patient.

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PRIME study (A Clinicians’ and Patients’ Survey to examine PreventS for Primary Stroke Prevention)

This study aims to examine clinicians’ as well as patients’ perspectives about the usability of the PreventS app for stroke prevention in clinical practice and to update the PreventS-MD system based on their feedback.

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