The British Heart Foundation’s (BHF) Data Science Centre said the study is crucial in helping more people’s health.
Mr Monk’s wife Nicola, who works for the NHS, joined seven other members of the public to help design a study to understand how data can support cardiovascular research.
“It’s all thanks to his smartwatch that Chris was diagnosed. It would’ve been so easy to dismiss if we hadn’t had that data,” she said.
Dr Jackie MacArthur, a senior scientific programme manager at the BHF’s Data Science Centre said: “If this could be securely linked with a person’s NHS data, with their informed consent, this data could provide new insights into the causes and effects of cardiovascular diseases, and improve disease prediction, diagnosis and treatment.”
