[Qidong Chronic Hepatitis B Cohort: participants enrollment and comparison of baseline characteristics by gender stratification].

Objective: To establish a study cohort of chronic hepatitis B (CHB) in Qidong and evaluate its baseline characteristics. Methods: CHB outpatients of the Third People's Hospital of Qidong were invited to participate in baseline survey from January 1, 2016, including questionnaire survey, liver function detection, serum detection of HBV infection and upper abdomen ultrasound detection. Anticipated sample size was at least one thousand. Baseline data were inputted by EpiData 3.1 software and then cleaned and analyzed by SAS 9.3 software. Results: As of 18 July, 2016, a total of 1 006 participants had been enrolled into the current study, including 615 males with an average age of (44.26±9.97) years and 391 females with an average age of (46.66±11.17) years. The difference in family history of liver disease was not significant between males and females (P>0.05), while the differences in other key information, such as age, education level, tobacco consumption, alcohol drinking, tea consumption, and antiviral intervention, were significant between males and females (P<0.05). Among the key clinical parameters, such as ALT, HBeAg, HBsAg, HBV DNA, albumin, and width of splenic vein and portal vein, only the abnormal rates of ALT and total bilirubin levels were higher in males than in females, the difference was significant (P<0.05). Conclusion: Outpatient department-based CHB cohort was established successfully in Qidong, and sub-cohort could be divided according to the differences on baseline characteristics.

[Clinical observation on 206 cases with lower limb deep venous thrombosis treated by integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine].

OBJECTIVE: To study the pathogenetic mechanism of lower limb deep venous thrombosis (DVT). METHODS: Thrombosis test in vitro of 206 cases with lower limb DVT was measured. All of them were treated by integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine (TCM-WM). RESULTS: The indexes of thrombosis test in vitro of patients were much higher than those of normal subjects (P < 0.001). The relevent indexes were different in types distribution according to differentiation of symptoms and signs (P < 0.01-0.001) and between before and after treatment (P < 0.001). It showed that hypercoagulability of blood occurred even if after the occurence of DVT. Changes of indexes might be objective parameters for Syndrome Differentiation in TCM. The indexes became lower when state of illness was improving. CONCLUSION: The therapy of TCM-WM has good efficacy for DVT.

[A study on the effect of fermented soybean in preventing iron deficiency anemia in children].

Using the fermenting technique that hydrolysis the phytate in soybeans. The absorption rate of iron was improved and a series of fermented soya foods were produced. Feeding the fermented food to 437 children for 6 months, the incidence of IDA children significantly decreased from 21.7% to 1.25%. The iron absorption rate (21.8%) in the children given the diet containing fermented soy was significantly higher than that of (14.2%) in the children given the bland diet (control group) and about the same as that in the FeSO4 group (22.48%) 58Fe.