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Table 2 Difficulties in everyday life reported by 151 CVD subjects and 302 NCV subjects

From: Subjects with colour vision deficiency in the community: what do primary care physicians need to know?

Difficulties associated with

% of CVD observers

% of NCV observers

Significance (p value)

Clothing colours

23.8

1.0

<0.0001

Workplace/hobbies colours eg. pie charts

13.2

1.0

<0.0001

Natural colours

40.4

1.0

<0.0001

Colours relating to cooking s eg. Identification of cooked versus raw meat

31.7

8.6

<0.0001

Sports colours eg. shirts of players

21.2

1.3

<0.0001

Skin colours

3.3

1.7

0.0007

Television colours setting

6.0

0.7

0.0002

  1. Data from Tagarelli et al. [22] (Statistical significance of differences were calculated using the chi-square test or Fisher exact test, two-tailed significance level 0.05).