Stroke Riskometer app

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An app that is aimed at anyone wanting to calculate their risk of stroke.

Stroke Riskometer	By AUT Enterprises Limited
	Features Risk self-assessment Education and information
Clinical review
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Get the app from	App website iTunes
Cost	Free for basic version or NZD $4.99 for pro version

What does the app do?

This is a simple app that calculates the user's risk of stroke within the next 5 or 10 years based on a number of risk factors such as age, gender, ethnicity, lifestyle and other health factors. The app also provides information about the key signs of a stroke. Users are prompted to choose whether they want to allow their data to be used in a research study into stroke risk and prevention. The pro version allows users to save or share their results and provides more information about stroke and stroke risk. For a more detailed description of the app, see iTunes and for a detailed review, see Reviews.

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Pros	Cons
✔ Mostly easy to use ✔ Risk factors are separated into lifestyle factors that you can change such as diet, exercise and those risk factors that you cannot change such as age ✔ Gives risk of stroke compared to someone without any contributing risk factors ✔ Useful pictures explaining the signs and symptoms of a stroke ✔ User can click an information icon that explains terms such as what constitutes a serving of fresh fruit and/or vegetables, the definition of regular exercise, etc.	✘ Scroll ruler to choose age, weight, height etc is not easy to use ✘ Reasonable level of personal health knowledge required to enter risk factor information ✘ Unable to access education and videos on the free version.

Pros

Cons

✔ Mostly easy to use

✔ Risk factors are separated into lifestyle factors that you can change such as diet, exercise and those risk factors that you cannot change such as age

✔ Gives risk of stroke compared to someone without any contributing risk factors

✔ Useful pictures explaining the signs and symptoms of a stroke

✔ User can click an information icon that explains terms such as what constitutes a serving of fresh fruit and/or vegetables, the definition of regular exercise, etc.

✘ Scroll ruler to choose age, weight, height etc is not easy to use

✘ Reasonable level of personal health knowledge required to enter risk factor information

✘ Unable to access education and videos on the free version.

Privacy and security

The app does not have a privacy policy. Users are not required to log-on and no identifiable information appears to be collected through the app. Users can choose if they wish to participate in a study and submit their risk assessment results to researchers. Read more about things you can do to improve your safety and security when using apps.