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A.1<br />

A.1 Introduction and overview<br />

and early pathophysiological responses and chronic disease outcomes with such a study<br />

design, Finally, prospective studies are indispensable for investigating risk determinants for<br />

overall and cause-specific mortality and o<strong>the</strong>r conditions that are ei<strong>the</strong>r associated with a<br />

high fatality risk, such as MI, or with memory losses and poor responses to questionnaires<br />

or personal interviews, such as cognitive impairment and dementia.<br />

A.1.3 The <strong>National</strong> <strong>Cohort</strong>: Overview <strong>of</strong> study design<br />

The <strong>National</strong> <strong>Cohort</strong> will include a total <strong>of</strong> 200,000 women and men in <strong>the</strong> age range <strong>of</strong> 20<br />

to 69 years (40,000 individuals under age 40 and 160,000 individuals over age 40 years),<br />

who will be recruited through a network <strong>of</strong> 18 local study centers (figure 1.1) spread all<br />

over North, East, South, West, and central Germany (Level 1). In a representative subcohort<br />

<strong>of</strong> 40,000 women and men (i.e., a 20% subsample, distributed equally over all 18 study<br />

Figure centers), an 1.1intensified<br />

study protocol is foreseen, which will include a series <strong>of</strong> additional,<br />

more in-depth medical examinations. (Level 2). In a fur<strong>the</strong>r subcohort <strong>of</strong> 40,000 women and<br />

men, comprehensive whole-body, heart and brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) will<br />

be applied (Figure 1.2).<br />

Lower Saxony/<br />

Hamburg/Bremen<br />

North Rhine-<br />

Westphalia<br />

SC Bremen<br />

BIPS<br />

SC Brunswick/Hanover<br />

TiHo Hanover<br />

HZI Brunswick<br />

SC Muenster<br />

University Muenster<br />

SC Essen<br />

University Hospital Essen<br />

SC Duesseldorf<br />

German Diabetes Center<br />

IUF<br />

Baden-Wuerttemberg/<br />

Saarland<br />

SC Freiburg<br />

University Freiburg<br />

Schleswig-Holstein<br />

SC Kiel<br />

University Kiel<br />

University Luebeck<br />

SC Hamburg<br />

figure 1.1: Recruitment clusters and study centers <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>National</strong> <strong>Cohort</strong><br />

UKE<br />

SC Saarbruecken<br />

SC Heidelberg/<br />

Mannheim University<br />

Heidelberg<br />

Cancer Registry Saarland<br />

DKFZ<br />

Heidelberg<br />

2<br />

SC Neubrandenburg<br />

SC Halle<br />

University Halle–Wittenberg<br />

SC Leipzig<br />

University Leipzig<br />

SC Regensburg<br />

University Regensburg<br />

SC Augsburg<br />

HMGU Munich<br />

University Munich<br />

Mecklenburg-<br />

Western Pomerania<br />

University Greifswald<br />

RKI<br />

MDC<br />

Charité<br />

DIfE<br />

SC Berlin-North<br />

SC Berlin-Center<br />

SC Berlin-South/Brandenburg<br />

Saxony/Saxony-Anhalt<br />

Bavaria<br />

Berlin-Brandenburg<br />

Study center (SC)<br />

Coordinating institution<br />

Participating institution

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