MyHeart Counts
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medical | Free | Stanford University | iPhone, iPod |
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.
Reviews
Massive Battery Killer
K-dog1973
I continue to be a part of the study, but this app is a battery killer. It is often not necessary to shut down the app in background to stop the thing from quickly driving my phone into a premature cardiac arrest of its own. PLEASE FIX THE BATTERY DRAIN ISSUES!!!!
Crashing iOS 14.2 iPhone 12 Pro Max
CrusinClassic
Moved over to iPhone 12 Pro Max app crashes on open with Face ID.. Turned off Face ID and it ask for 4 digit code. Never set one up. Never asked to set one up.
The right idea
Jackemeyer
Daily small survey is do-able. I would like resting HR instructions & prompt 1x per week, but no such function. 6 min walk test is nice. Improvements would be to make clear if activities from Healthkit were being used or not (I’m not certain if my workout yesterday was “recorded” or not. In the past, I would enter the data manually into this App, redundantly to entering it manually into the z health App … except the formats are different!). Further, the circle (yester, today, week) make no sense to me.
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fromSF
I just filled in a detailed list of symptoms- fever, aches etc- resulting from my booster of the Moderna vaccine August 29th. You don’t have the option to list a third vaccine or booster so your algorithm will assume I was ‘sick’ which I wasn’t
Not bad, but definitely some glitches
Jm606
I've had the app for 3 weeks now and I'm not as impressed with the activity tracking aspect as I hoped. Not once has it recorded "light" activity. It's either sedentary or moderate/vigorous. That can't be right, and definitely doesn't square with what health app/activity on my Apple Watch or my Strava running activity shows. Though I average nearly an hour workout/run every day, the app today informed me I needed to be more active. It would also be nice to see how you compare to other users (by age, gender, weight) for more than just the 6 min walk test. Hopefully the developers will address these issues, because the better the app is at capturing the date, the more useful it will be.
Connectivity
chrisbooks
Would really help if fitbit connected to fitbit. The myheart counts app / apple frequently underrates my activity by 50% or so.
Nice to have
Disdaone
App is good even though I haven't used all the features yet. One thing I would add to the app is the date when you put your sleep info. I think I may be inputting duplicate sleep data
Good but could be better
Critter708
Would like to see better integration with the Apple Watch. I should not have to carry my phone for it to know if I am sitting or standing. Coaching seems to be giving the same idea over and over
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Jimjr42
Easy to use and hopefully provides potential warning signs for heart problems based upon many users and long term data tracking. Probably half of the times I have no entry, I simply forgot. Would be helpful for accuracy of your data base if one could enter excel ISE 1 or 2 days later. Connecting to genetic based data like 23andMe could provide even far greater insight into roles of genetics, exercise, medical history to provide better guidance to users. Currently used tables for predictive heart issues seems very poor. I cycle many weekend days--Sat or Sun for 2+ hours with an average HR of 126-127 and peak of 140+ for 3-5 min 2or 3 times on hills, so estimate I must be in the upper 2-3%, maybe 1% in fitness for a 75 year old male and my life expediency seems less than average--seems to make no sense to me. It would also be great if you could connect into MapMyFitnss or any of their related Apps as I & I think many users wear a HR Monitor & I suspect max HR & recovery time are better predictor of heart health than what you are measuring. Would also be convenient if one could log exercise a day or two later as I sometimes forget to enter until the next day. It's certainly easy to use & I hope someday in the future, you will post any publications of what you've learned.
