Objective To obtain suitable hearing screening methods for preschool children.Methods A total of 2025 children aged 2~6 years old in 30 kindergartens in Huangshi City were selected by random sampling method.Acoustic impedance and otoacoustic emission tests(transiently evoked otoacoustic emissions and distortion product otoacoustic emissions) were performed in two stages of preliminary hearing screening.The children who failed the hearing screening needed to do the re-creening with the same methods;the children who failed the rescreening needed to receive audiological tests including ABR, ASSR examination and imaging examinations.Results The total screening pass rate was 94.02%, of which 1 842 passed the preliminary hearing screening(90.96%, 1 842/2 025).The 183 children who failed the preliminary hearing screening received the re-screening, 62 children passed the re-screening(33.88%,62/183).121 children failed the re-screening(5.98%,121/2 025), and finally 72 children(3.56%,72/2 025)were diagnosed with hearing loss, including 47 cases of otitis media,22 cases of sensorineural hearing loss(8 cases were moderate, 4 cases were severe hearing loss,10 cases were profound);18 cases were unilateral hearing loss while 4 cases were bilateral hearing loss.Conclusion Acoustic impedance and otoacoustic emission tests can be used for hearing screening in preschool children.The hearing problems of preschool children in Huangshi City were concentrated mainly in the middle ear secretory otitis media and different degree of sensorineural hearing loss.

Objective To investigate the relation between different glucose metabolism status and the IL‐6 and IL‐18 levels . Methods The pre‐diabetes group ,type 2 diabetes mellitus(T2DM) group and healthy control group(NC) were selected with 30 ca‐ses in each group .Fasting venous blood was collected for detecting fasting plasma glucose (FPG) ,triglyceride(TG) ,total cholester‐ol (TC) ,low‐density lipoprotein‐cholesterol (LDL‐C) and high‐density lipoprotein‐cholesterol (HDL‐C) levels .Serum IL‐6 and IL‐18 levels were measured by adopting the enzyme‐linked immunosorbent assay(ELISA) .Results The IL‐6 and IL‐18 levels in pre‐diabetes and T2DM groups were significant increased compared with those in the NC group ,the difference was statistically signifi‐cant (P<0 .01) .The IL‐6 level was positively correlated with FPG ,TG and IL‐18(P<0 .05) ,the IL‐18 level was positively correla‐ted with FPG ,TG and IL‐6(P<0 .05) .But IL‐6 and IL‐18 were negatively correlated with HDL‐C(P<0 .05) ,however ,had no cor‐relation with TC and LDL‐C (P>0 .05) .Conclusion IL‐6 and IL‐8 participated in the pathogenesis of T2DM ,their serum concen‐trations can be used as the evaluation indexes of pre‐diabetes screening and reverse intervention effect .

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the quality of evidence in the systematic evaluation/meta-analysis of traditional Chinese medicine （TCM） for diabetes retinopathy （DR） based on the GRADE system. METHODS Chinese and English databases were searched to obtain the relevant studies of systematic evaluation/meta-analysis of traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of DR. The search time was from the establishment of each database to January 13th， 2024. According to the inclusion and exclusion criteria， literature screening was conducted. After extracting relevant information from the included literature， the GRADE system was used to evaluate the quality level of the evidence body in the included studies， and the evidence of the outcome indicators was integrated and summarized. RESULTS A total of 51 studies were ultimately included， encompassing 135 outcome indexes. Among these， 19 indicators （14.1%） were of high quality， 87 （64.4%） were of medium quality， 26 （19.3%） were of low quality， and 3 （2.2%） were of very low quality. Overall， the evidence quality of the outcome indicators in the included studies was medium to low quality. The integrated results of evidence on the efficacy of outcome indexes showed that compared with conventional Western medicine， calcium dobesilate or placebo， TCM had significant advantages in improving overall efficacy， reducing bleeding spot area， reducing macular foveal thickness， and increasing visual improvement rate. In addition，the combination of TCM and conventional Western medicine or calcium dobesilate was significantly more effective than using conventional Western medicine or calcium dobesilate alone. CONCLUSIONS The overall quality of the evidence in the systematic evaluation/meta-analysis study on the treatment of DR with TCM is medium to low quality. Based on existing research findings， TCM demonstrates good clinical efficacy in the treatment of DR.