All research studies on humans can uncover facts relevant to a volunteers health - at initial screening, during the study itself, or even after the study finishes, when other researchers review the data or conduct their own analyses. For the most part, researchers have opted not to reveal these potentially important 'incidental findings' to participants. This has been to protect the research process, and to prevent coercing people into studies by unwittingly eliciting the 'therapeutic misconception - the incorrect assumption on the individual's part that participating in a study will help their own health.
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