INTRODUCTIONAccording to WHO, a BMI of less than 18.5 as underweight and may indicate malnutrition, an eating disorder, or other health problems, while a BMI equal to or greater than 25 is considered overweight and above 30 is considered obese. 1 A body mass index <24.9kg/m 2 and a waist circumference <80cm are recommended so as to decrease the likelihood of developing a menopausal insulin-resistance syndrome. 2 American Heart association/American college of cardiology guidelines recommend adherence to dietary and lifestyle habits including body weight control and physical activity. 2 Diabetes definitely increases the other risk factors and modifies the protective effect by estrogens. 2 Carcinoma breast and carcinoma cervix are leading causes for cancer deaths in India. Still, these get detected only in late stages. Preventive measures and early detection of disease will help to decrease the burden of these cancers. 3 Vaccination of girls between 9 and 12 years may offer an option to decrease this burden. The use of HPV Vaccine has been approved by the Drug Controller of India. 3 In the last decades, papilloma and herpes viruses got more importance in the development of epithelial dysplasia, neoplasia and cervical cancer. Cervical cancer has the second place in mortality from gynecological Copyright: © the author(s), publisher and licensee Medip Academy. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
ABSTRACTBackground: Managing the hectic schedule, female doctors often neglect their own health. In the present study, we evaluated the awareness, attitude and practices of breast, cervical and ovarian malignancies and also hypertension, diabetes, coronary artery disease and osteoporosis in female doctors. Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted among 100 female doctors of M.B.B.S. and higher degrees of various subjects. Selection of female doctors was done randomly. Results: In present study, out of 100 female doctors, 90 (90%) were doing their self breast examination regularly and 31 (31%) had done their mammography. 54 (54%) female doctors had their own pap smear done while 72 (72%) female doctors had their own ultrasound got done. 82 (82%) had their own blood pressure check up, 74 (74%) had their own blood sugar checked, 62 (62%) had got their own lipid profile done while only 44 (44%) female doctors had their ECG done and 48 (48%) had their bone mineral density done. 23 (23%) female doctors were diagnosed as hypertensive, 14 (14%) as diabetes, 4 (4%) as coronary artery disease, 5 (5%) as breast cancer, 2 (2%) as ovarian cancer, 18 (18%) as thyroid disease while 15 (15%) were detected as having osteopenia. Conclusions: In spite of knowing about all diseases, their complications, screening methods and preventive care, practice of applying screening or preventive methods to themselves is not universa...