Background: A natural phenomenon involving the discharge of blood through the vagina from the uterus, occurring at more or less monthly at regular intervals during the reproductive life of females is called menstruation. A normal menstruation occurs for the first time in the adolescent period between 11 and 14 years of age generally, with a period length of around 7 days, with a normal cycle length ranging between 21 and 45 days with an average blood loss of 20-80 ml. Materials and Methods: This was a cross-sectional study of 3-month duration (February 2019 to June 2019), in which 291 students from the various courses including medical, nursing, physiotherapy, and art and science students of a tertiary care hospital participated. Results: Two hundred and ninety-one students were included in the study, among which the age of the students was between 18 and 23 years of age with the majority of students between 20 and 21 years (43.99%). Most of them belong to rural backgrounds (40.55%) and majority of them are day scholars (86.25%). Discussion: This study was pointed to find a relation between stressful life events and menstrual patterns among college-going students of different courses of undergraduate college. Previous studies till now have reported a higher percentage of distress among postgraduates (32.8%) and resident doctors of hospitals (36.4%). Conclusion: Despite high levels of stress in undergraduate students, other factors can also play a significant role in maintaining their menstrual cycle.

Introduction: Chest computed tomography (CT) scans have a significant role in the identification and treatment of COVID-19 disease. In earlier studies, the introduction of chest CT has been a highly sensitive method in testing COVID-19 pneumonia. With a radiation dose comparable to a chest X-ray, ultra-low-dose CT has been promised to be a successful method for lowering radiation dose and motion artifact. Materials and Methods: The research was carried out at a tertiary care facility’s radiology department between August 1 and August 31, 2020. A sum of 109 individuals aged over 18 years old and been called for a noncontrast CT scan chest and received were included. Results: The minimum age was 18 and the maximum was 87, where 14.67% of them are between 21 and 40 years, 40.37% of them are between 41 and 60 years and 44.96% of them are between 61 and 87 years. Male’s mean age is 55.89 years and female’s mean age is 60.14 years. The overall mean age is 57.02 years and standard deviation is 13.49 years. The average body mass index was 26.51 ± 3.5 kg/m2. In the standard dose and ultra-low-dose groups, the mean effective dose values were 6.70 ± 0.85 and 0.33 ± 0.09 mSv, respectively (P < 0.001). Conclusion: When identifying lung infiltrations among the patients admitted for elective or moderately urgent surgical or medical operations at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, ultra-low-dose chest CT is an effective method that exposes patients to less radiation than standard dose CT.

Background: Studies have reported that hypomagnesemia could play an essential role in the development of endothelial dysfunction and altered insulin function, particularly among type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). To assess the incidence of hypomagnesemia among patients with T2DM and compare them with healthy individuals. Materials and Methods: One hundred types 2 diabetic patients admitted to the general medicine outpatient Department at Government Erode Medical College Hospital, Perundurai, were recruited. Biochemical parameters and serum magnesium were assessed at admission and compared with the 100 healthy controls without T2DM. Results: Cases and controls had mean ages of 50.39 ± 9.76 and 50.01 ± 10.15 years, respectively. The age range of 41–50 had the highest percentage of patients (42%). The gender distribution was the same for both cases and controls, with 70% of men and 30% of women. Between cases and controls, the mean fasting blood sugar levels were 102.42 ± 11.16 mg/dl and 91.93 ± 4.32 mg/dl, respectively. Conclusion: Hypomagnesemia is a common problem in adults with T2DM, and we did find a significant association between Mg levels and T2DM in Erode district, Tamil Nadu.

Background: Understanding medical students' mental health using subjective well-being indicators is important because it will allow for the creation of positive psychology-based intervention techniques as well as the implementation of main and secondary psychiatric disorder prevention procedures for medical students. These indicators may help to improve the overall quality of health care provided by these future professionals to the general public. Aims: The aim of the present study was to assess the levels of stress and subjective well being as well as factors related to it and their link to the academic performance amongst medical students of a tertiary care setting. Materials and Methods: This is a 3-month cross-sectional survey that took place amongst medical students at a tertiary care medical college in Salem, India, between January and March 2022. Students from all academic years, from first year to internship, were included in this study. The study included all students who were willing to participate and gave their informed consent. Results: Of the total 492 respondents, 288 (58.5%) were females and 204 (41.5%) were males. 29.7% of the study participants belonged to the first year of the MBBS course. 43.9% of the study participants possess a very good academic performance and majority (86.6%) of the students have regular attendance towards classes. Conclusion: Taken together, the findings of studies like these could inform preventive interventions aimed at reducing medical students' distress and promoting future doctors' well-being.