Relación síndrome metabólico y estilos de vida en los alumnos del sindicato de choferes profesionales de Chimborazo, período abril-septiembre de 2014.

Abstract

The objective of this research is to determine the Chromatic perception changes and the difficulty to recognize some colors, in rural areas school students in Guano Canton, Chimborazo Province. This is an observational, descriptive, transversal, non-experimental study, where a visual assessment was made to the study group students. The Ishihara test was applied to 945 students who are the study population, the results were 85 cases with chromatic perception changes, by considering sex, age, and school year variables; Protanopia (total absence of red retinal photoreceptors ) , Deuteranopia (total absence of green retinal photoreceptors), Tritanopia (absence of retinal photoreceptors for blue). According to the results, students aged between 6 and 18, 9% of the population presented abnormal color vision; with a predominance of male 6.2%. From 85 patients, 43.6% have abnormal conditions only for green; 25.9% red/green deficiency; 18.9% only for red; and 9.4% for blue. It is recommended that School Authorities continue with this research in Schools throughout the province since this vision disorder, which is not so common, in most sever cases can affect students’ academic and social performance.