Summary: Patient adherence—as recently demonstrated in the MI FREE trial—is a notoriously complicated issue that is the focus of several ongoing research projects. Drs Steve Driver and Don Hensrud join the show to discuss their innovative trial presented at ACC 2013, which examined the role of an incentive program in combination with education on healthy living in helping obese patients lose weight. Hear the authors' interpretation of the results, what they might mean for existing weight-loss programs as well as future research, and how this could be a step forward in the promotion of adherence.
