Background: Stress is a negative emotional, cognitive, behavioral and physiological process occurs as individual adjusts with stressors. Due to the secretion of this cortisol and epinephrine blood vessels are tightenedas a result heart rate and blood pressure increases. Present study aimed to asses the level of perceived stress and its association with Pre hypertension in health professional beginners. Material and Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted in the Department of Biochemistry, SBKS MI & RC, SVDU for consecutive two batches 2016-17 & 2017-18. Total 506 first year MBBS, BDS & BPT students were studied for age, gender and Blood Pressure. Stress was assessed by PSS-10 scale. Two groups were identified as their PSS score, stressed and non-stressed. Results: PSS score showed that among all participants 71.74% (N=363) students were stressed and 28.26% (N=143) students were none stressed. In the present study the mean systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure of 506 health professionals was 125.63±3.35 and 76.96±5.65 respectively which falls under the category of pre hypertension. Conclusion: Majority of students could be categorized as pre-hypertensive group based on blood pressure.An effective inclusion and implementation of regular exercise, sports and cultural activities and stress management program like meditation, yoga in the medical curriculum may be a key to reducing and or preventing stress-induced psychological distress and Hyperteinsion

Beta thalassemia is one among the commonest hereditary haemolytic disorders that result from defective synthesis of haemoglobin and ineffective erythropoiesis. Very less data is available in the early identification of renal involvement in patients with thalassemia. Renal impairement in thalassemic patients may be due to chronic anemia, chronic hypoxia, iron overload and iron chelators toxicity. The objective of the study was to estimate renal parameters in pediatric age group with transfusion dependent beta thalassemia major and to correlate the outcome with the degree of iron overload. The study consists of 30 diagnosed cases of beta thalassemia major aged between 3-18 yrs admitted in Vani Vilas Hospital attached to BMC&RI, Bangalore and 30 healthy age and sex matched controls. Blood samples were analyzed for hemoglobin, serum urea, creatinine and spot urine sample for microalbumin. Data analysis was done by Pearson’s Correlation analysis and Student’s t test. Mean age of cases was 8.9 years (SD=4.14) among whom 50% were females and 50% were males. Mean age of controls was 9.06 years (SD=3.5). Mean hemoglobin levels were decreased significantly (p<0.01) in cases when compared to controls. Mean urinary microalbumin excretion was significantly increased (p<0.01) in cases as compared to controls and positively correlated with duration of chelation, suggesting renal damage. Therefore microalbuminuria is important to assess the risk of renal dysfunction in these patients.

Plants have been in used as a source of medicinal substances for centuries and the utilization of these plants for this purpose are on the increase. There has been a growing concern on the lack of database of some of these medicinal plants therefore; the present study aims to provide an index of Nigerian plants with antianaemic potentials. The methodology employed involves extensive search and literature review of various local and international peer-reviewed journals that focused on Nigeria plants with antianaemic activity used by the people in different parts of the country. The scientific search engines used in this study included the Google scholar, (https://scholar.google.com) and PubMed (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed). The study database were research articles and other scientific write-ups known for their academic importance, covering different aspects of the plant species (Botany, places where the plants are commonly found, parts of the plant used and the type of anaemia it ameliorates) dating from 2005 to 2017.