npj Digital Medicine (Sep 2024)

Understanding activity and physiology at scale: The Apple Heart & Movement Study

  • James Truslow,
  • Angela Spillane,
  • Huiming Lin,
  • Katherine Cyr,
  • Adeeti Ullal,
  • Edith Arnold,
  • Ron Huang,
  • Laura Rhodes,
  • Jennifer Block,
  • Jamie Stark,
  • James Kretlow,
  • Alexis L. Beatty,
  • Andreas Werdich,
  • Deepali Bankar,
  • Matt Bianchi,
  • Ian Shapiro,
  • Jaime Villalpando,
  • Sharon Ravindran,
  • Irida Mance,
  • Adam Phillips,
  • John Earl,
  • Rahul C. Deo,
  • Sumbul A. Desai,
  • Calum A. MacRae

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-024-01187-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Abstract Physical activity or structured exercise is beneficial in a wide range of circumstances. Nevertheless, individual-level data on differential responses to various types of activity are not yet sufficient in scale, duration or level of annotation to understand the mechanisms of discrete outcomes nor to support personalized recommendations. The Apple Heart & Movement Study was designed to passively collect the dense physiologic data accessible on Apple Watch and iPhone from a large real-world cohort distributed across the US in order to address these knowledge gaps.