Size Matters: Community Size, HIV Stigma, & Gender Differences

HIV-1 latent reservoir: size matters

More than 35 million people remain infected with HIV-1. Upon antiretroviral therapy cessation, HIV-1-positive individuals systematically fail to achieve sustained virological remission, revealing the presence of a reservoir. This reservoir takes into account anatomical sanctuaries where HIV-1 continues to replicate, and latently infected cells also known as the latent reservoir (LR). A better u...

Size matters

Charles Darwin when developing his theory of evolution. And a new study of work on the islands' marine iguanas may help throw some more light on the evolution of body size within these populations. Body size is one of the most important traits of organisms and allows predictions of an individual's morphology, physiology, behaviour and life history. However, explaining the evolution of such comp...

Gender and lung transplantation: size matters, does sex?

Right heart assessment by echocardiography: gender and body size matters.

BACKGROUND Published reference values for echocardiographic measurements of right-heart dimensions and function do not stratify for gender and body size. The aim of this study was therefore to assess the impact of gender and biometric characteristics on right-heart dimensions and function. METHODS From the echocardiography database at a tertiary care center, 1,625 subjects (mean age, 44 ± 14 ...

Matters of Size

Size does matter. At least that’s what the tagline of the movie Godzilla claims (one of the many renditions of the franchise). A quick glance at the great beasts of our past—dinosaurs, marine animals, snakes, why even disturbingly massive dragonflies, scorpions and camels—would make it appear as if increased body size conferred some sort of advantage then. Yet biologists concur that overall, th...