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Hong Kong iPhone users invited to join tens of thousands worldwide in study of exercise and heart health

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Hongkongers are now able to download MyHeart Counts and take part in a global study of cardiovascular health. Photo: Corbis

Hong Kong has become the next major testing ground, after the United States, for a free iPhone application that allows users to contribute to an advanced research on cardiovascular health.

MyHeart Counts, an iPhone app created by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine in the US, was made available to users in Hong Kong last month in line with the international expansion of the world’s largest study of measured physical activity and cardiovascular health to date.

“We are looking for everyone who is curious as to how healthy their heart is to download this app,” Alan Yeung, the Li Ka-shing professor of cardiology at Stanford, told the South China Morning Post.

“MyHeart Counts, essentially, was designed to try to understand how exercise relates to heart health.”

He expected the study in Hong Kong to lead to the release in the next few months of a Chinese-language version of MyHeart Counts, which was also recently made available in Britain.

MyHeart Counts was one of the first five apps to be built using Apple’s ResearchKit software framework. It is also the first to be launched internationally.

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