The Clinical Stroke & Imaging Research (CSI) group leads the brain MRI analysis within the Hamburg City Health Study (HCHS), a large-scale epidemiological study aimed at understanding the complex interplay between genetics, environment, biology, and lifestyle in developing major diseases. HCHS seeks to identify risk factors for common conditions such as stroke, dementia, and cardiovascular diseases to enable earlier, more precise, and personalized treatments.
Our group leads the brain MRI analysis within the Hamburg City Health Study (HCHS), a large-scale epidemiological study aimed at understanding the complex interplay between genetics, environment, biology, and lifestyle in developing major diseases.
The study aims to identify risk factors for common conditions such as stroke, dementia, and cardiovascular diseases to enable earlier, more precise, and personalized treatments. Currently, cross-sectional data from 5000 participants with state-of-the-art brain MRI data and extensive imaging and clinical phenotyping of all major body systems is available. Longitudinal follow-up investigations are planned.
In the HCHS, we investigate high-risk individuals in early stages of Cerebral Small Vessel Disease to identify biomarkers for targeded preventive measures.