Cardiovascular imaging is an essential component of the diagnostic investigations in clinical cardiology. Imaging is ALSO a major cost factor in medicine; thus, for selecting an imaging technique, an individual, informed decision must be based on accessibility, safety, diagnostic accuracy, cost, and its added value to therapeutic or preventive decision-making. Current imaging techniques use a l...

Jae-Seung Yun, Seung-Hyun Ko, Ji-Hoon Kim, Kun-Woong Moon, Yong-Moon Park, Ki-Dong Yoo, Yu-Bae Ahn Divisions of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Department of Preventive Medicine, St. Vincent’s Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine, Suwon, Korea Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Arnold School of Public Health, Univer...

JANUSZ ŚMIGIELSKI1, JOANNA RUSZKOWSKA2, WALERIAN PIOTROWSKI3, MARIA POLAKOWSKA3, WOJCIECH BIELECKI4, WOJCIECH HANKE5, and WOJCIECH DRYGAS2,3 1 Medical University of Lodz, Łódź, Poland Department of Geriatrics, Healthy Ageing Research Centre (HARC) 2 Medical University of Lodz, Łódź, Poland Department of Preventive Medicine 3 Institute of Cardiology, Warszawa, Poland Department of Epidemiology, ...

From the Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention (ADP, NRC, PMR, JEB), the Donald W. Reynolds Center for Cardiovascular Research (ADP, NRC, PMR), the Leducq Center for Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Disorders (PMR), the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine (PMR) and Preventive Medicine (ADP, NRC, JEM, PMR, JEB), Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, ...