Free mobile app aims to improve heart health
Cardiologist Valentin Fuster developed a free mobile app called “Circle of Health” that aims to inform users how to improve heart health.
Using the mobile app, users learn directly from Dr. Fuster about the six variable risk factors, how to prevent or better manage them, and how to live a healthier and longer life. It assists adults on how to properly measure, prevent, fight, and reduce their risk factors.
The mobile app, developed by Fundación Pro CNIC and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York in collaboration with Wake App Health, has a unique, multimedia and interactive circular format which creatively incorporates video, audio, and educational graphics.
It works by comprehensively evaluating your health with an initial questionnaire to assess and measure your baseline cardiovascular health, empowering you with health information and prevention heath tips you need to succeed, and weekly and monthly motivation to establish good habits, reduce bad habits, and providing you with challenges to get more physically activated to improve your health.
“This mobile app is for those people who want to improve their health and lifestyle habits including diet, exercise, and others—and it’s also a very useful tool for those that have or have had any heart attack, stroke, or artery disease to gain knowledge on how to reduce their chances of a future event,” says Dr. Fuster.
To download Circle of Health, visit www.thecircleofhealth.org, the Apple iTunes Store, or Android.
Category: Features, Technology & Devices
