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Purpose: The aim of present study is to compare the lifestyle, temperament and anxiety of pregnant women who suffer from high blood pressure and healthy pregnant women. Method: the study is a descriptive and cause and effect stud. The population consisted of all pregnant women of Doroud in second three months in 2015. A sample of 196 female -98 pregnant who suffer from high blood pressure and healthy pregnant women- through Cochran formula and simple random sampling. In order to measure variables, the lifestyle questionnaire of Miller and Smith (1992), Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) and EAS Temperament Survey of Plomin (1984) - Emotionality, Activity, and Sociability survey- were used. Data were analyzed through U Mann Whitney Test and t-test to compare means. Results: The results showed that there was significant difference between anxiety and lifestyle of both groups, but there was no significant difference due to temperament. Conclusion: It seemed that changing the inappropriate lifestyle and reduce the anxiety of pregnant women may avoid subsequent dangers both for fetus and mother.

Personality is a structure gathering interrelated behavioral, cognitive and emotional patterns that biological and environmental factors influence; these interrelated patterns are relatively stable over time periods, but they change over the entire lifetime. For the Present study the Subjects was selected from the M.C.A, Botany, chemistry, Home Science, Education and Psychology department of Kashmir University. Six hundred (600) women students were serving as subject in the study. The sample was consists of 100 M.C.A, 100 Botany, 100 chemistry, 100 Home Science, 100 Education and 100 Psychology women college students of Kashmir University. The simple random sampling technique was applied to select the subjects for the study. Data reveals that the mean of personality development was highest in the women students of MCA department of 59.18, the data was again analyzed by applying‘t’ test. Before applying‘t’ test, standard deviation was calculated and was standard deviation of the Botany department was 7.01and 5.96 was the lowest of Home Science Department.

Some epidemiological studies have reported a relationship between thyroid dysfunctions and the risk of breast cancer’s giving the similarities between estrogen and thyroid function. This study was therefore aimed at evaluating the level of thyroid gland hormones, TSH and estrogen in breast cancer patients. A cross-sectional study was carried out in the month of September to November 2019. A total of 60 subjects attending breast cancer screening clinic of Federal Medical Center and Imo State University, Owerri were recruited for this study. The 60 subjects are between the ages of 20-60 years. The 60 subjects were divided into two groups: Group 1 (Test) consists of 30 females with breast cancer. Group 2 (Control) consists of 30 apparently healthy women with no breast cancer. Blood samples were collected, and the level of thyroid hormone and estrogen was determined. Data generated was then analysed using SPSS version 21. There was no significant difference (p=0.308 and p=0.626 respectively) in the mean value of T3 and T4 in breast cancer patients (3.42±0.07 and 1.41±0.15 respectively)µIU/ml when compared to Controls (3.11±0.64 and 1.35±0.23)µIU/ml. The mean value of TSH was significantly increased (p=0.02) in breast cancer patients (2.79±1.05)Pmol/ml when compared to controls (1.40±0.17)Pmol/ml. The mean value of estrogen was significantly increased (p=0.000) in breast cancer patients (540.39±66.70)pg/ml when compared to controls (222.10±58.09)pg/ml. There was a non significant negative correlation of serum estrogen with serum T3, and T4, (r= -0.253, p=0.682 and r=-0.107, p=0.864). There was a non significant positive correlation of serum estrogen with serum TSH (r=0.380, p=0.528). There is a strong association between breast cancer and serum concentrations of thyroid stimulating hormone and estrogen, but there is no alteration in TSH hormones in breast cancer.

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is one of the health burdens ravaging the world with severe impact in developing regions. Women and young girls are more threatened by HIV infection than their male counterparts. Notably, in 2022, 63% of all new HIV infections were attributed to women in sub-Saharan Africa. The anatomical architecture of the female genital tracts, poverty, gender imbalance, unrefined cultural norms aimed at subjugating women, early exposure to sex and marriage, and illiteracy are fingered to contribute to the increased risk of HIV infection in women and young girls. Mitigating these factors will no doubt help curb the prevalence of HIV infection. Herein, we highlighted some measures that could help turn down women’s risk of getting HIV including abstinence, regular use of condoms, delay in sexual exposure, maintaining one faithful partner, timely voluntary counseling and testing, formal education, monitoring of alcohol use, proper dieting, and scrapping of cultural norms targeted at subjugating women. Successfully turning down HIV infection risk in women and young girls will be a breakthrough in the combat against HIV infection since women and young girls being the most vulnerable group must have been salvaged. This paper reviewed the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in women and young girls, the factors fueling the high prevalence, and enumerated key areas to target in order to minimize this menace. Related published data from various databases were utilized.