Has anyone tried the phone app
Stroke riskometer
Mine was 12.5% chance over 5 years but I wondered if by taking blood thinners that could be divided by 5 as this wasnt one of the questions asked but have you got atrial fibrillation was
Any idea Bob or anyone
Hello F45
Please have a look at one opinion, published by US Government:
fda.gov/consumers/consumer-...
"You can greatly reduce the risk of a stroke by 50% to 60% by taking a blood thinner (anticoagulant)”
J (-:
My understadning is that the risk is per annum not total so over 5 years is whatever annual risk x5. Anticoagulation generally reduces this by around 70%. What we do know is that UK has one of the worst records of having at risk people on anticoagulants in Europe and we could save maybe 8000 strokes a year if this was changed. GPs were one serious block to this as they were apparently hard wired to fear internal bleeding rather than stroke and therefor reluctant to prescribe. Better education is gradually changing this and for instance The Bradford Area, thanks to our own Dr Matt Fay now has the lowest strokes per capita in UK.
Well I had a good look at it and looks to me as though it is a collaborative research tool - they are gathering your data for research purposes. It seems to be based on more than CHADSVascII.
Background info:- world-stroke.org/2016-12-19...
There are a host of these sort of apps popping up all over the place and I can see their potential value but you want to need to be proactive to follow the advice, otherwise I can see unintended consequences of just scaring folk.
As Bob & Globe-J have indicated - the best way for us Afibbers is to take an anti-coagulant.
Not sure it is for me, enough apps which monitor my every move to cope with.
Had a look at that app. The only thing I noted was there didn’t seem to be a datum reference where the risk for the population as a whole would be say x and over this is deemed at risk etc. My result was 3% over 5 years but I’ve no idea if that good or bad
Makes you wonder who designed the app if they’ve missed something as common as blood thinners
Experimenting on myself, don't all try this at home
Interesting info
Interesting Morning
