title: Prevalence of congenital red-green color vision defects in Arab boys from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
abstract: The prevalence of congenital red-green color vision defects (CVDS) is both racial and gender dependent. Red-green color vision defects (CVDS) have been screened for among Arab boys from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, by using both the Ishihara plates and the D 15 test. The results indicate a prevalence of 2.93%. Deutan defect was present in 1.95% of the subjects, protan defect in 0.49% and unclassified color defect in 0.49%. This result confirms the previously reported low prevalence of congenital red-green CVDS among adult Arab males from the central region of Saudi Arabia.
authors.affiliation: Dept. Optometry, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: E P
authors.initials: EP
authors.lastname: Osuobeni
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003118:Color Perception; D003117:Color Vision Defects / Q000151:congenital* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D012529:Saudi Arabia / Q000453:epidemiology; D014787:Vision Tests