Clinical relevance of imaging techniques in population-based research

Deutsche medizinische Wochenschrift
H VölzkeR Puls

Abstract

Similar to clinical practise, population-based studies with a clinical-epidemiological focus include imaging techniques to identify manifest disease and to assess subclinical disease. Even population-based cross-sectional studies offer various options to address scientific questions of great clinical relevance, including analysis of reference values, prevalence estimates and association analysis. Further potential values of imaging techniques in population-based studies concern additional information on incidental diseases and mortality rate, which make it possible to investigate the association between imaging findings at baseline and subsequent disease. Modern population-based designs ensure a high degree of being representative and can be generally applied to clinical practise and, as a result, may be highly relevant to daily clinical routine. When imaging techniques are integrated within population-based research, problems of quality control may have to be solved, all probands must give informed consent and a decision made on what findings have to be given to the participants.

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