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Table 6 Comparing increases in accommodative load from monocular to binocular viewing between IXT patients and controls

From: Clinical exhibition of increased accommodative loads for binocular fusion in patients with basic intermittent exotropia

Target distance

Fixating/right eye of IXT patients, D

right eye of controls, D

p *

Deviating eye/left of IXT patients, D

left eye of controls, D

p *

6 m

0.23 ± 0.58 (−0.51 to 1.88)

0.09 ± 0.28 (−0.69 to 0.37)

0.097

0.20 ± 0.58 (−0.82 to 1.12)

0.03 ± 0.38 (−0.56 to 1.06)

0.278

50 cm

0.42 ± 0.73 (−1.55 to 1.38)

0.03 ± 0.36 (0.82 to 0.44)

0.027

0.37 ± 0.77 (−1.74 to 1.44)

0.04 ± 0.47 (−1.07 to 0.70)

0.064

33 cm

0.88 ± 0.74 (−0.07 to 2.56)

0.10 ± 0.38 (−0.50 to 0.69)

0.002

0.67 ± 0.68 (−0.63 to 0.62)

0.00 ± 0.45 (−0.94 to 0.69)

0.002

20 cm

0.89 ± 1.05 (−0.44 to 2.81)

0.03 ± 0.89 (−1.38 to 1.75)

0.022

0.97 ± 1.08 (−1.63 to 3.07)

−0.03 ± 0.78 (−1.25 to 1.45)

0.003

  1. IXT intermittent exotropia, D diopters
  2. *Mann–Whitney test