Correlation between secretory otitis media and upper airway diseases in children
OU Xinbo
MEI Xubin
ZHAO Limin
ZOU Huizhong
WU Yiping
SU Yong
CHEN Zhengang
LIU Wenjun
Abstract：Objective To study the relationship between secretory otitis media (SOM) and upper air-way diseases in children. Methods Subjects included 339 children diagnosed with SOM at Qingdao Munici-pal Hospital from February 2013 to March 2015 and 206 normal children identified during the same period. The onset frequency of chronic rhinitis, allergic rhinitis and chronic sinusitis per year, as well as the results of acoustic immittance, otoscopy, nasal endoscopy and nasopharyngeal lateral projection X ray, were compared between children with SOM and normal children using the SPSS 18.0 software. Results Compared to normal children, children with SOM showed increased annual frequency of chronic rhinitis (6.25±3.14 vs 2.39±1.22), allergic rhinitis (5.04±3.43 vs 0.41±1.17) and chronic sinusitis (1.04±2.08 vs 0.30±0.77), as well as increased rate of tonsil hypertrophy (50.7%vs 7.8%) and adenoid hypertrophy (81.1%vs 12.6%) (P<0.05). Multiple re-gression analysis indicated that adenoid hypertrophy (I°and IV°), tonsil hypertrophy (IV°) and allergic rhinitis were major risk factors for SOM in children (P<0.05). Conclusion Adenoid hypertrophy (I°和IV°),tonsil hy-pertrophy (IV°) and allergic rhinitis are major risk factors for SOM in children.
Keywords：Secretory otitis mediaAdenoid hypertrophyNasal disease
Publication Date：2015-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 678-681 )