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App designed to empower patients to prevent CVD
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The new Circle of Health app, developed by Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, in collaboration with Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Fundacion Pro CNIC in Spain, has been released, with a goal to promote CV health and reduce rates of CAD, MI and stroke worldwide.
Valentin Fuster
Using the mobile app, users learn directly from Fuster about risk factors for CVD, including high cholesterol, diabetes, obesity, elevated BP, smoking and physical inactivity, according to a press release.
“These abnormal risk factors account for 90% of [MIs] and strokes,” Fuster, director of Mount Sinai Heart, physician in chief of The Mount Sinai Hospital and general director of the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), said in the release. “Each person needs to pay close attention to these six risk factors and maintain them daily to remain heart healthy and reduce their chances of atherosclerosis, heart attack or stroke.”
The app is available in English and Spanish. It features a multimedia and interactive circular format that incorporates audio, video and educational graphics. The app evaluates users’ health with an initial questionnaire that assesses baseline CV health; provides health information and prevention tips; provides weekly and monthly motivation tips to establish good positive health habits, reduce negative health habits; and provides challenges to encourage physical activity, according to the release.
More information about the Circle of Health app can be found in the Apple iTunes and Google Play app stores, according to the release.