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Hypertension and Color Blindness in Young Men
William E. Morton, MD, DPH
Arch Intern Med. 1975;135(5):653-656.
Abstract
Medical data from Selective Service registrants born from 1939 to 1941 were studied in Oregon and Colorado. Among 29,119 registrants with medical information (41.3% of all registrants), 1,073 (3.6%) had definite hypertension, and 1,226 (4.2%) had some type of color blindness. In both states, there was a highly significant association between the prevalence of hypertension and the prevalence of color blindness. Thus, definite hypertension was present in 6.0% of colorblind individuals but in only 3.6% of those with unimpaired color vision, while color blindness occurred in 6.8% with definite hypertension, in 5.8% with borderline hypertension, and in only 4.0% with normal blood pressure. The data did not differentiate among types of color blindness, and the reason for the association is not yet evident.
Author Affiliations
From the Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Oregon Medical School, Portland.
Footnotes
Received for publication April 22, 1974; accepted Jan 10, 1975.
Reprint requests to 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Rd, Portland, OR 97201 (Dr. Morton).
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