The prevalence of congenital color vision defect in the young healty Turkish males Saǧlikli genç erkeklerde konjenital renk görme kusuru prevalansi


Toyran S., AKAY F., SALMANOĞLU M., Yeşiltaş F.

Retina-Vitreus, cilt.24, sa.4, ss.284-288, 2016 (Scopus, TRDizin)

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 24 Sayı: 4
  • Basım Tarihi: 2016
  • Dergi Adı: Retina-Vitreus
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Scopus, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.284-288
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Congenital color vision defect, Ishihara pseudoisocromatic test, Prevalence
  • Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Purpose: The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of congenital color vision defect in the young healty Turkish males. Materials and Methods: This study was progressed among 50,251 young healty male cases directed to health committee in ophthalmology clinic of İzmir Military Hospital between January 2011-June 2015 retrospectively. Ishihara pseudoisochromatic color plates were used for color vision examination. Cases with symmetric results in both eyes were considered as congenital color vision defect. Results: Congenital color vision defect was detected in the 2786 cases (5.54%). Mean age of the subjects were 21.02±2.12 (18-28) years. 1758 of the subjects (3.49%) were determined as deutan defect and 1028 of them (2.04%) were protan defect in all the congenital color vision defect cases. Conclusion: This study was performed in a large and healthy population. Our results were consistent with the Europe, United States of America and Far East countries.