Reply to: From TROPHY With Pride

Reply to Visit-to-visit blood pressure variation: time to reanalyze all the data from the TROPHY study.

To the Editor: We are glad to see that 6 years after publication of the Trial of Preventing Hypertension (TROPHY), the results are still being debated. Only truly new and important findings can elicit such an interest. TROPHY reported more robust results in the first 2 than in the second 2 years of the study. Two years of treatment with candesartan produced a 66.3% relative risk reduction (RRR)...

Reply to Hedrick et al.: Trophy hunting influences the distribution of trait values through demographic impacts.

Coltman et al. (1) claimed that the “production of smaller-horned, lighter rams and fewer trophies” is “an evolutionary response to sport hunting of bighorn trophy rams.” Using data from the same population, we conclude (2) that the very rapid shift in body mass they report was principally demographic in origin rather than evolutionary. Our conclusions are further supported by additional resear...

A First DFA on PRIDE: From Theory to Practice

Wearing my disability with pride.

cause any serious problems. But as I got older and thought about my future career and how professional colleagues would perceive me, I worried my TS might impede my dreams. By the time I began college, I was acutely self-conscious about my disorder and worried that it might distract teachers and fellow students or deter them from interacting with me. These concerns seemed justifi ed when, as a ...

Why men trophy hunt

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