StrokeRisk AI ranks the hypertension patients in your clinic by stroke risk, using the fourteen clinical fields you already record. It returns a risk band, the reasons behind it, and guideline-aligned next steps — in your own language, in under two seconds, on any phone or tablet.
We record who is using the tool, in what role and at which facility. This gives every assessment a clear provenance and helps us improve the tool for the people actually using it. It takes about thirty seconds and you only do it once on this device.
StrokeRisk AI was developed on individual-level records from 10,092 adults managed for hypertension in Enugu State, and it asks only for information a Nigerian hypertension visit already produces. No new test, no laboratory, no specialist equipment.
The tool ranks your patients so that scarce follow-up capacity reaches the people most likely to benefit. If you can intensively follow one patient in five, that group contains around 60% of the strokes that will arise in your hypertensive population.
A single cut-off would have detected 95% of cases in men but only 71% in women. Sex-specific thresholds bring detection to 85.0% and 85.7%. Equitable detection was treated as a design requirement, not a trade-off.
Clinical summaries, guideline-referenced recommendations and a patient-facing explanation, composed in the language you choose — including Nigerian Pidgin, Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo — rather than translated from English afterwards.
Three rules are evaluated before any score is calculated. Reported FAST symptoms trigger emergency escalation immediately. A documented prior stroke or TIA triggers the secondary-prevention pathway. Systolic pressure at or above 180 mmHg, or diastolic at or above 110 mmHg, triggers same-day clinical escalation.
The model may raise a patient's risk band. It can never lower it below the standard of care indicated by clinical assessment alone. Every result records whether the band came from the model or from a clinical rule.
This tool does not diagnose stroke and does not replace clinical judgement. It is a screening and prioritisation aid for clinicians. Developed and internally validated on Nigerian clinical data; prospective external validation is underway.