title: [Proposal for presbycusis screening in a primary care clinic].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Presbycusis is one of the causes of deafness that has increased most in our society. To show the levels of presbycusis in people over 60 who attend our health centre for other reasons and to assess the utility of certain tests employed in primary care to detect hearing problems.
  
  
  METHODS
  One-hundred and ten people.
  
  
  METHODS
  prior specialist diagnosis, lack of consent or impossibility of running the tests. Assessment of auditory invalidity: otoscopy, Weber, Rinne, whispered voice, auditory disability test. Audiological validation by audiometry assessed by ORL. Results analysed with SPSS statistical packet.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Mean age 714 (6.1). Otoscopy was normal in 81.8%. Weber's test had no significant relationship with the otoscopy, but did with the Rinne. Presbycusis was seen in 68.2% of the audiometries. Everyone (100%) who had worked in a noisy environment had audiometric deficit.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There were high figures (87%) for hypoacusis in our population of elderly people. In 68.2%, this was due to presbycusis. The sensitivity and negative predictive value (Vp-) of most of the tests used in primary care to detect auditory disorders are low.
authors.affiliation: Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria, Centro de Salud de Conxo, Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña, Spain. norberto.proupin.vazquez@sergas.es
authors.forename: Norberto
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Proupín Vázquez
authors.forename: Ana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lorenzo Martínez
authors.forename: María
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Del Río Valeiras
authors.forename: Lorena
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Alvarez Alonso
authors.forename: Xosé
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Segade Buceta
authors.forename: Torcuato
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Labella Caballero
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening; D008875:Middle Aged; D011304:Presbycusis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011320:Primary Health Care; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires