Lack of Association between Cirrhosis and the Common Types of Color Blindness
- 15 September 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 275 (11) , 584-587
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm196609152751104
Abstract
A RELATIVELY large number of color-vision abnormalities have recently been observed in alcoholic patients with cirrhosis, and the suggestion has been advanced that the X-linked genes causing color blindness predispose to cirrhosis of the liver in alcoholic patients1 and to alcoholism.2 To investigate this relation further, a group of alcoholic patients with cirrhosis in Seattle was studied for color-vision defects.Materials and MethodsTwenty-two female and 24 male alcoholic patients with Laennec's cirrhosis were studied. Forty-two were white, and 4 were Negroes. All had the typical clinical and laboratory findings of Laennec's cirrhosis, and 26 had histologic confirmation of the . . .This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
- COLOUR-BLINDNESS AND ALCOHOL ADDICTIONThe Lancet, 1965
- COLOUR-BLINDNESS AND CIRRHOSIS OF THE LIVERThe Lancet, 1965
- Color-Vision Defects in American School ChildrenJAMA, 1964