22 December 2020, 5:49 am EST By Scientists claim that smartphone apps possibly reduce the risk of cancer, cardiovascular disease, chronic diseases, and other health issues. Their new study explained that these technologies can do this because they effectively improve the users' physical activities. Scientists and other experts from the University of Sydney stated that smartphone applications and activity trackers increase physical activity levels in people without chronic disease. The University of Sydney's official website said that the study, which was published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, claimed that the interventions involving apps and activity trackers made the participants walk 2000 steps every day.