Apple Launches Three Innovative Studies Today in the New Research App
November 14 2019 - 8:45AM
Business Wire
The Apple Heart and Movement, Women’s Health and Hearing
Studies Now Open for Enrollment
Apple® today announced that customers in the US can enroll in
three landmark health studies — the Apple Women’s Health Study, the
Apple Heart and Movement Study, and the Apple Hearing Study.
Conducted in partnership with leading academic and research
institutions, these multi-year longitudinal studies are available
in the new Research app, which can be downloaded today from the App
Store®. Now participants can contribute to potentially
groundbreaking medical discoveries with iPhone® and Apple Watch®,
and help create the next generation of innovative health
products.1
“Today marks an important moment as we embark on research
initiatives that may offer incredible learnings in areas long
sought after by the medical community,” said Jeff Williams, Apple’s
chief operating officer. “Participants in the Research app have the
opportunity to make a tremendous impact that could lead to new
discoveries and help millions lead healthier lives.”
Now it’s easier than ever to contribute to medical research
through a streamlined enrollment process and engaging tasks in a
straightforward and secure app. After enrolling in a study,
participants using Apple Watch and iPhone can contribute useful
data around movement, heart rate and noise levels — captured during
everyday activities, from taking a walk to attending a concert. The
Research app joins Apple’s lineup of products and services that
enable medical discovery on a scale never before attempted,
including iPhone, Apple Watch, ResearchKit® and HealthKit™.
The Apple Women’s Health Study
There is a great opportunity to better understand menstrual
cycles and how they relate to women’s health. The Apple Women’s
Health Study is the first long-term study of this scale and scope;
it aims to advance the understanding of menstrual cycles and their
relationship to various health conditions, including polycystic
ovary syndrome (PCOS), infertility, osteoporosis and menopausal
transition. Conducted in partnership with Harvard T.H. Chan School
of Public Health and the NIH’s National Institute of Environmental
Health Sciences (NIEHS), the study will use iPhone and Apple Watch
to collect study-specific data like cycle tracking information, and
use monthly surveys to understand each participant’s unique
menstrual experience. The study seeks to analyze the impact of
certain behaviors and habits on a wide breadth of reproductive
health topics.
The Apple Heart and Movement Study
Measuring the quality and quantity of a person’s movement can
provide insight into their current and future health status. The
Apple Heart and Movement Study is a broad study of factors that
affect heart health and potentially cause deterioration in mobility
or overall well-being, in an effort to promote healthy movement and
improved cardiovascular health. Users can participate by using the
Research app on their iPhone and recording workouts on their Apple
Watch Series 1 or later. With Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the
American Heart Association, Apple is taking on this study to
understand how certain mobility signals and details about heart
rate and rhythm could serve as potential early warning signs of
atrial fibrillation (AFib), heart disease or declining mobility, to
build new interventions that could help consumers lead longer,
healthier and more active lives.2
The Apple Hearing Study
The impact of sound exposure on hearing health and stress levels
over time is not well understood. The Apple Hearing Study will
collect headphone usage and environmental sound exposure data
through iPhone and the Noise app on Apple Watch, in order to
explore how both can impact hearing over time. Alongside the
University of Michigan, the study will also determine how long-term
sound exposure can impact stress levels and cardiovascular health.
Participants will be randomly assigned to two groups within the
study to assess if receiving Health app notifications when loud
sound exposure is detected can motivate users to modify their
listening behaviors. Data from the study will also be shared with
the World Health Organization (WHO)’s Make Listening Safe
initiative to raise awareness of safe listening practices with the
aim of reducing hearing loss.
As one of its core values, Apple believes that privacy is a
fundamental human right. Therefore privacy is built into all
products and services from the beginning. The Research app was
carefully created to only share data with the chosen studies when
the user approves. It also includes a clear enrollment flow with
detailed consent that explains how data will be used and allows a
user to control the type of data shared with each study.
1 The Research app is available on iPhone 6s or later with iOS
13.2 or later. 2 The Apple Heart and Movement Study requires Apple
Watch Series 1 or later with watchOS 6.1 or later.
Apple revolutionized personal technology with the introduction
of the Macintosh in 1984. Today, Apple leads the world in
innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV.
Apple’s four software platforms — iOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS —
provide seamless experiences across all Apple devices and empower
people with breakthrough services including the App Store, Apple
Music, Apple Pay and iCloud. Apple’s more than 100,000 employees
are dedicated to making the best products on earth, and to leaving
the world better than we found it.
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