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[An epidemiological study of congenital dyschromatopsias in schoolchildren]
A Castro Lobera1, M Romero Martín, M Domínguez Carmona
1Departamento de Salud Pública e Historia de la Ciencia, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Complutense, Madrid.
Background:
Taking into consideration that present-day communication is based on colours and shapes, the prevalence of anomalies in the chromatic sight in the red-green axis has been studied in the school boys of the city of Albacete.
Methods:
The test of Ishihara has been used in an aleatory representative sample; and dyschromatopsic pupils, so classified in this test, have been further explored with the anomaloscopy Pickford-Nicolson, in order to know their anomaly kind and degree.
Results:
The prevalence obtained is similar to those reported by other studies carried out in the European white race.
Conclusions:
Taking into account the transcendence of this phenomenon, we consider that this exploration must be included in the systematic examinations at school labour and general level.