All that technology we drag around with us all the time is giving researchers data that provides insight into everything from our travel to fitness. If you have a habit of checking your health and fitness data through a smart watch and app, you are not the only one keeping track. Data from participants, provided by Apple, helped researchers produce the “Apple Heart and Movement Study.”

“The heart is an incredible organ, working tirelessly every second of every day,” report beings. “Understanding how various heart metrics reflect your overall well-being can empower you to lead a healthier life. Thanks to the participants in the Apple Heart and Movement Study, researchers have gathered valuable data to help us better understand this relationship. By tracking metrics like cardio fitness (VO2 max), resting heart rate, heart rate during sleep, and activity, we can uncover patterns that inform us about our cardiovascular health.”

So how are we all doing? Well, in Ohio, not so great. Here, we get less exercise and have higher average resting heart rates than the national average — though we fall in line with other Midwestern states.

State residents — and bear in mind these are the people wearing fitness tracker watches — exercise approximately 31 minutes per day and have an average resting heart rate of 63.8 beats per minute.

States such as New York, Massachusetts, Vermont and the District of Columbia are doing much better on those markers, while West Virginia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and Oklahoma are performing abysmally.

But if we are concerned about quality of life for Ohioans, comparing won’t do us much good. We’ve got to be determined to do better for ourselves. That means moving more, handling stress better (or being better at avoiding it altogether), eating better and sleeping better.

It is, for the most part, the kind of preventive medicine that is available to anyone, if they put their minds do it; but certainly it is easier if there is policy and community support.

Ohio may be the heart of it all, but this data shows most of us have got some work do if we are going to take better care of ours. Fitness tracker or not, there is no time like the present.