Getting patients suffering from chronic diseases to stick with medications remains a challenge for providers. Research shows that it has much to do with a patients’ individual characteristics—and new research published this week sheds more light on the subject.

Arterys Cardio DL provides automated, editable ventricle segmentations based on conventional cardiac MRI images that are as accurate as segmentations performed manually by experienced physicians. 

Older adults in Finland who engaged in leisure-time physical activity at baseline had lower risks of all-cause mortality, cardiovascular disease mortality and incident cardiovascular disease events, according to a population-based cohort study.

Obese adults with diabetes who adhered to an intense lifestyle intervention had reduced risks of cardiovascular disease for several months, although the benefits decreased over time, according to a five-year follow-up of the program.

A survey of U.S. cardiologists found that women were nearly three times as likely as men to report they experienced some form of discrimination. Women were significantly more likely to report sex and parenting discrimination, while men were significantly more to report racial and religious discrimination.

An analysis in New Zealand found that 4.2 percent more people died from cardiac-related causes outside of the hospital during the Christmas period than would be expected based on seasonal trends.

The pediatric cardiology department at Massachusetts General Hospital provided Josmaily Cruz, 6, and his family with gifts for Christmas, the Boston Herald reports.

A new retrospective analysis shows for the first time that the pooled cohort equations discriminated MI risk adequately and exhibited moderate calibration. Two other data-derived MI risk estimation models that incorporated HIV-specific factors had similar discrimination as the pooled cohort equations, but they had worse calibration.