The general objective of this study is to highlight the anthropometric characteristics of beautiful lips in a population of young Negroid students, based on a subjective evaluation of their student peers. Fifty-two female students declared to have “beautiful lips” by students agreed to voluntarily participate in the study after free consent and agreement to have a photograph of the lip taken. To be included in the study, the student had to be judged “to have beautiful lips”, twice with an interv...

Women’s Health 

The general objective of this preliminary study in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was to make an assessment of breast ptosis in young female students by determining the types of mammary ptosis observed and by looking for the morpho-anthropological and behavioral aspects likely to occur, influencing the appearance of breast ptosis. We surveyed 300 students aged 18 to 25, single, without parity or gesture. We searched for types of breast ptosis, age, year of study, weight, height, waist and ...

Women’s Health 

Background: Gestational Weight Gain and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus are interrelated and are also closely associated with adverse neonatal deliveries namely macrosomia and preterm births. However, available literature does not shed light on comparison between the magnitude of adverse newborn outcomes associated with GDM and GWG together on one hand and GWG only on the other hand in women of various BMI in Kenya. Consequently, this study investigated the association among the cases of GWG, GDM ...

Women’s Health 

Introduction: The word cosmeceutical was first conceived in 1961 by Raymond Reed. The term was further popularized by Dr. Albert Kligman in 1984 and by 1996 the cosmeceuticals products made their first appearance in the world market. The word “cosmeceutical” continues to evolve since then to date. However, most people are either ignorant of it or confused it with cosmetics generally. It lacks a proper definition and its difference from individual cosmetics and pharmaceutical agents seem to be in...

Drugs & Devices  Women’s Health 

Introduction: Cervical cancer can be prevented by papillomavirus vaccination and screening for precancerous lesions. Initiated in the district in 2018, screening has never been studied. The objective of this research was to investigate the frequency of precancerous lesions and associated factors. Methods: This was a descriptive and analytical cross-sectional study. Data were collected from screening registers. Sociodemographic characteristics, medical history, macroscopic data and therapeutic as...

Gynecology & Obstetrics  Women’s Health 

Breast cancer is the most common and deadliest cancer in women. The association of breast cancer and pregnancy is relatively rare and has a poor prognosis due to often late diagnosis and a high potential for lymphatic dissemination. It poses many diagnostic, therapeutic, prognostic and psychological problems. We report a case of ductal carcinoma of the breast associated with pregnancy in a 27-year-old patient. The diagnosis was late as well as the care which began 4 weeks after delivery. Obstetr...

Gynecology & Obstetrics  Oncology  Women’s Health 

Objective: Analyze advertisements about Congenital Syphilis produced by the Ministry of Health in the light of Freire. Method: Documentary research, whose search took place on the website of the Ministry of Health, Department of Chronic Conditions and Sexually Transmitted Infections, between February and March 2021. Thematic analysis of the selected pieces was carried out in the light of Freire. Results: Six campaigns were selected in their entirety with a focus on the topic of Congenital Syphil...

Public Health  Nursing  Infectious Diseases  Women’s Health 

Background: Obesity is a state of the excess buildup of fats where it leads to chronic low-grade inflammation, lipotoxicity, deranged endocrine system and the female sex hormones. It is speculated that each of these aspects plays a contributory role to infertility in obese. So, this review aims to look into changes in the endocrine system and the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian (HPO) axis in obese women that affect the female reproductive system and the correlation between each mechanism leading ...

Women’s Health 

Background: The significance of investigating relationships involved in the transport of lipids to the foetus is very important in the first-trimester embryogenesis. The objective of this study, therefore, was to model the relationship between the maternal booking visit lipid profile parameters and the placental indices outcomes. Method: Analytical descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted between March 2014 and October 2018 on placenta, neonates and maternal booking visit lipid profile pa...

Women’s Health 

Syphilis in a pregnant woman keeps threatening the life of both the woman and her fetus at any time of pregnancy. While the control of this disease seemed to be effective around the 2000s in developed countries, its prevalence in pregnant women has risen all over the world especially in countries with limited resources. Although syphilis control in pregnant women would be part of the health policy of almost all the countries of sub-Saharan Africa, this opportunity is unfortunately not capitalize...

Epidemiology  Global Health  Gynecology & Obstetrics  Infectious Diseases  Women’s Health