Background: There are several risk factors contributing to cardiovascular diseases, such as age, gender and ethnicity. Positive family history being overweight and obese is also additional risk factors. Other, life style factor that contribute to hyper tension are smoking, stress cell phone use and physical inactivity, consumption of alcohol, increase salt intake reduce potassium intake. The objective of the study was to assess the awareness about cardiovascular diseases risk factors amongst first-year medical students. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out amongst 136 first-year medical students of MIMSR Medical College, Latur, Maharashtra during the period of December 2017 to May 2018. A self-administered, pre-tested structured questionnaire was used to obtain information about awareness of cardiovascular diseases risk factors including diet, physical activity, smoking, and alcohol habits from the study subjects. Results: The study subjects were 136 first-year medical students belonging to 18-23 years age group. There was good awareness about high fat food, high sugar intake, smoking and alcohol consumption as cardiovascular diseases risk factors. Conclusions: There is good awareness about cardiovascular diseases risk factors among first-year medical students.

During the course of faunistic survey of Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve, Chandrapur District, Maharashtra in April 2000, we encountered altogether five specimens of Croce filipennis Westwood, a member of family Nemopteridae of order Neuroptera. Again one of us (SST) could collect a single specimen of the same species from Lakhani Village, Bhandara District, Maharashtra (approximately 150 km. away from Tadoba) on 27 April 2000. Earlier, in 1998 we had collected a single mutilated specimen of the same species from Pune. Though seldom seen, all these collections reveal the probability of wide distribution of this species in Maharashtra State.

Molecular property and bio-activity scores of seven curcuminoids derivative of Curcuma longa Linn present in Curcuma longa Linn were predicted using molinspiration software. For all the essential oil compounds, miLog P values were observed to be 5 this shows these compounds were not easily permeable across the cell membrane. TPSA in the assortment of 0.00 -66.76 (well below 160Å2) and n violations= 1 or 0, molecular mass < 5 [10], N0 of hydrogen bond donors ≤ 5 (the sum of OHs and NHs), No of hydrogen bond acceptor ≤ 10 (The sum of Os and Ns) were pragmatic for these compounds. This designates that these compounds were found to obey Lipinski's rule and can simply bind to the receptor and further used for the calculation of bioactivity score. The bioactivity score calculated by the activity score of GPCR ligand, ion channel modulator, nuclear receptor ligand, kinase inhibitor, protease inhibitor and enzyme inhibitor.

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