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Schizophrenia is a chronic and debilitating psychiatric illness consisting primarily of symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions, also termed as "positive" symptoms. In addition, individuals may experience "negative" symptoms which include loss of sense of pleasure, social withdrawal, impoverishment of thoughts and speech and flattening of affect. According to WHO estimates, schizophrenia affects approximately 24 million people worldwide. 1 The prevalence of schizophrenia varies across the world, within countries, and at the local and neighborhood level. 2,3 The most recent publications estimate that prevalence of schizophrenia ranges from 1.4 to 4.6 / 1000 and the median incidence varies from 0.15 to 0.20 / 1000 population/year 4,5 and it is higher (7 / 1000 population) in

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in Chirayu medical College and Hospital. A total of 300 students were included in the study those who volunteered for participation. Hypertension was diagnosed based on drug treatment for hypertension or if the blood pressure was greater than 140/90 mmHg -Joint National Committee 7 (JNC VII) Criteria. 8 Anthropometric measurements including weight, height, waist and hip measurements were obtained using standardized techniques. RESULTS: Out of total 300 subjects 128(42.6%) were prehypertensives, 20 (6.66%) had stage I hypertension and 04 (1.3%) had stage II hypertension. Out of total 300 subjects 40 (13.3%) subjects had BMI < 18.5, 168 (56%) had BMI between 18.5 and 23.9, 38 (12.6%) had BMI between 24-26.9 and 54 (18%) had BMI ≥27. CONCLUSION: Overweight and obesity are a major health hazard all over the world and are becoming a major health threat among both the sexes and all age groups. Substantial proportions of young adult medical students are prehypertensives, overweight and obese. Our results highlight the necessity to institute effective prevention and health promotion programs targeting younger age groups.

Introduction: Cutaneous appendageal tumors are a large diverse group of tumors that are commonly classified according to their state of appendageal differentiation-eccrine, apocrine, follicular and sebaceous. Most appendageal tumors are relatively uncommonly encountered in routine clinical practice. Though some of the appendageal tumors (e.g. syringoma, nevus sebaceous) can be diagnosed clinically with ease but most of them have non-specific morphological appearance and their diagnosis is mainly based on histopathological characteristics. Material and methods: It was a cross sectional descriptive study conducted in the department of dermatology, Chirayu medical college and hospital, Bhopal. A total of 90 patients attending department of dermatology were screened out for appendageal tumors and those (60 patients/66.6%) who were confirmed by histopathological examination of lesional biopsy were included in the study. Results: On the basis of differentiation of tumors, sweat gland tumors were the most common appendageal tumors in our study (79.8%) followed by follicular tumors (11.6%), sebaceous were 8.3%. On individual tumor basis, syringoma constituted maximum numbers of cases (56.6%) followed by multiple trichoepitheliomas and hidrocystoma (both 11.6%). Face was the commonest site of predilection 40(66.6%) followed by scalp 12(20%). Conclusion: Appendageal tumors are relatively uncommon and constitute very small proportion of dermatological disorders. Though clinical appearance might help in diagnosing common appendageal tumors but histological examination remains the gold standard method in diagnosing clinically suspicious lesions.