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There were reports on the Heartline Study, a collaboration between Johnson & Johnson and Apple. It is a first-of-its-kind virtual study designed to explore whether an iPhone app and Apple Watch can help reduce the risk of stroke by regularly monitoring study participants’ heart rhythms. “We know that atrial fibrillation leads to stroke,” said Anne B. Curtis, MD, SUNY Distinguished Professor and Charles and Mary Bauer Professor and chair of medicine, who is serving on the Heartline Study executive committee.