Munich Reinsurance Company?s Canadian life branch (Munich Re) announced a partnership with the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) Foundation to advance cutting-edge cardiovascular disease research. As part of this partnership, Munch Re will help fund an innovative research project at the cutting-edge of science, MyHeart Counts Canada. In addition, Munich Re will collaborate with the project's lead investigator, Abhinav Sharma MD, PhD., to incorporate an insurance cohort into the study to help fuel better outcomes for insured populations. MyHeart Counts is a revolutionary smartphone app created at Stanford University in the United States as part of a research study to understand better how to keep hearts healthy. It allows users to see how their physical activity and lifestyle affect their cardiovascular health by tracking their movement using their phone or wearable fitness tracker. The app then provides assessments that measure risk and teaches users how to improve their heart health. Dr. Sharma, a cardiologist at the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) in Montreal, was part of the Stanford team that created MyHeart Counts, and now he is bringing the app to Canadians. MyHeart Counts Canada will improve the heart health of Canadians from coast to coast while allowing Dr., Sharma and his team to gain a deeper understanding of the factors that lead to cardiovascular disease ? one of the leading causes of death in Canada.