App Detail » MyHeart Counts

What's New

Thank you for being a member of the study and to those that reached out about bugs. This build fixes the bugs that were introduced while trying to support iOS14. Enjoy!

App Description

Apple’s new ResearchKit allows you to participate in important medical research studies easily through your iPhone. Stanford Medicine invites you to join the MyHeart Counts study to improve our understanding of heart health. The MyHeart Counts app is a personalized tool that can help you measure daily activity, fitness, and cardiovascular risk. It can also help you better understand your own heart health and contribute to our understanding of how to keep hearts healthy around the world. Join our research effort and make your heart count today!

The app can help you measure your activity through the sensors in your iPhone or the Apple Watch, or any wearable activity device linked to Apple Health App. If you are able, you can also do a walking fitness assessment. Plus, using your cholesterol results and blood pressure, the MyHeart Counts app will provide a calculation of your risk for future heart attack or stroke, as well as a relative “heart age.” By helping you track your activity levels and giving you feedback, we aim to help people be more informed and empowered in their health. We may also ask you to test different approaches to help you be more active so we can understand how mobile apps in the future can help prevent heart disease.

Key Features:

Record and track your:

• Physical activity through your iPhone or a Apple Health App-linked device
• Fitness level, if you are able, through a 6 minute walk test
• Risk score for heart disease or stroke, and your corresponding “heart age”

Receive reminders and notifications about:
• Your activity and sleep
• Surveys on Physical Activity Readiness and other health factors
• Entering blood pressure and cholesterol levels to calculate your risk score

Get educated:
• Learn about your activity level and walking fitness
• Learn about your risk factors and how to improve
• Links to learn about heart disease and stroke and the American Heart Association’s “Life’s Simple 7” guide to heart health

Eligibility:
To join the Stanford MyHeart Counts research study on heart health, you need to:
• Be 18 or older
• Reside within the United States, United Kingdom or Hong Kong
• Be able to read and understand English

Install the app today and learn about your heart, help research, and join together in the fight to stop heart disease!

Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

App Changes

• March 11, 2015 Initial release
• March 18, 2015 New version 1.0.2
• April 15, 2015 New version 1.0.3
• April 27, 2015 New version 1.0.5
• May 14, 2015 New version 1.0.6
• May 31, 2015 New version 1.0.7
• June 08, 2015 New version 1.0.8
• July 02, 2015 New version 1.0.9
• August 06, 2015 New version 1.5
• November 01, 2015 New version 1.5.1
• January 05, 2016 New version 1.6.0
• February 02, 2016 New version 1.6.1
• February 14, 2016 New version 1.6.2
• March 21, 2016 New version 1.7.0
• June 23, 2016 New version 1.7.1
• July 09, 2016 New version 1.7.2
• November 07, 2016 New version 1.7.3
• December 14, 2016 New version 2.0.0
• June 15, 2019 New version 2.1.3
• November 18, 2019 New version 2.2
• December 17, 2019 New version 2.2.1
• July 14, 2020 New version 2.3.2
• October 23, 2020 New version 2.4
• August 06, 2021 New version 2.4.1