2M.D. Izmir Military Medical Hospital. Internal Disease Clinic, Izmir/TURKEY
3M.D. Izmir Military Medical Hospital. Family Healt Center, Izmir/TURKEY 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.
Keywords : Congenital color vision defect, Ishihara pseudoisocromatic test, prevalence