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

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.
“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.