Color blindness
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What is color blindness?
There are three groups of inherited color vision defects. Monochromacy is the inability to distinguish any hues. People with dichromacy have either a red-green or blue-yellow defect. Anomalous trichromacy is a less severe defect in distinguishing red-green hues.
Common symptoms reported by people with color blindness
Treatments taken by people for color blindness
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Compare treatments taken by people with color blindness
Let’s build this page together! When you share what it’s like to have color blindness through your profile, those stories and data appear here too.
Got a question about living with color blindness? Members in the forum might have the answers.
Who has color blindness on PatientsLikeMe?
- 0 new patients joined this month
- 30 say color blindness is their primary condition
| Age | Proportion | # of patients |
|---|---|---|
| <20 | 0 | |
| 20s | 1 | |
| 30s | 7 | |
| 40s | 1 | |
| 50s | 6 | |
| 60s | 4 | |
| 70+ | 10 |
| Age at first symptom | Proportion | # of patients |
|---|---|---|
| 0-19 years | 1 | |
| 20-29 years | 1 | |
| 30-39 years | 2 | |
| 40-49 years | 1 | |
| 50-59 years | 1 | |
| 60-69 years | 0 | |
| 70+ years | 2 |
Distribution of sex
| Sex | Proportion | # of patients |
|---|---|---|
| Male | 37 | |
| Female | 22 |
| Diagnosis status | Proportion | # of patients |
|---|---|---|
| Diagnosed | 21 | |
| Not Diagnosed | 9 |