Colour Blind Awareness Helpsheet – CAFE
Colour blindness is the world’s most common genetic condition, but it is also very misunderstood. Worldwide, about 320 million people have some form of colour blindness. Colour blindness (colour vision deficiency or CVD) is usually an inherited condition affecting ability to see colours, caused by ‘faulty’ genesequencing in the DNA of the X-chromosome. We have 3 types of cone cells in our eyes. Each type is responsible for detecting either red, green or blue light. In colour blindness the faulty sequencing means one cone type is unable to decipher light wavelengths correctly. As a result the brain receives incorrect information and can’t properly interpret colour, so someone with CVD is not able to distinguish between colours normally. Colour blindness can also be acquired as a side effect of some diseases e.g. diabetes and sickle cell anaemia.
Men are 16 times more likely to be colour blind than women, 1 in 12 European men, more than 8%, have some degree of colour blindness. This equates to around 31 million males. In a footballing context, there are enough colour blind males in Europe to fill Wembley Stadium over 344 times.
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