“The keto diet, I believe, is based on misinformation," he said. 

A new study in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes examines trends in readmission rates among CVD patients. 

Researchers tracked data from more than 107,000 patients, completing what is believed to be the largest study of its kind. 

The document, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, includes updated data and new treatment strategies. 

“The differences in the findings are extremely important,” one researcher said. 

One key detail of the team's analysis was that anatomic imaging strategies are associated with an especially high sensitivity for detecting coronary artery disease. 

Researchers turned to accelerometers, lightweight motion sensors that can be attached to a user’s wrist, to investigate this topic. 

When Christopher Garcia, MD, MHS, completed his post-residency fellowship in 2015, he was looking forward to kickstarting his career in radiology. As he considered the variety of job opportunities before him—joining a private practice, working at a hospital—one option made more sense than any others: reading remotely from ­­­­the comfort of his Connecticut home as a teleradiologist.  

He told reporters that the platform’s decision to purge some 70K users after Jan. 6 riots on Capitol Hill influenced his thinking.