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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Optom Vis Sci. 2009 Apr;86(4):357–363. doi: 10.1097/OPX.0b013e3181989252

Table 2.

Summary statistics for clinical and demographic measures from the enrollment visit, by study.

Subjects with NBV Symptomatic

Characteristic Masked (N=46) Unmasked (n=56) CI subjects (N=221)
Mean (SD) age in years 12.5 (2.4) 11.4 (2.2) 11.8 (2.3)

 % Girls 60.9 45.5 59.3

Race
 % American Indian/Alaskan Native 0.0 0.0 4.6
 % Asian/Pacific Islander 2.2 4.3 1.8
 % Black or African American 45.7 42.6 29.7
 % White 32.6 51.1 54.8
 % Other 19.6 2.1 9.1
 % Hispanic or Latino 13.0 14.6 34.4

% self-reported ADHD 0.0 0.0 15.4

% visual acuity 20/20 equivalent or better at near 89.1 100.0 81.0

Mean (SD) Spherical Equivalent – Right Eye (D) −0.75 (2.1) −0.66 (1.6) −0.08 (1.5)

Refractive error category – Right eye
 % Myopic (more than −0.50D SPHEQ) 30.4 38.9 22.6
 % Hyperopic (more than +1.00D SPHEQ) 0.0 3.7 9.1
 % Emmetropic 69.6 57.4 68.3

% Glasses wearer 37.0 n/a 34.4

Mean (SD) Near Point of Convergence (cm)
 Break 3.5 (1.2) 3.7 (1.1) 14.2 (7.5)
 Recovery 5.2 (1.7) 5.4 (1.4) 17.9 (8.2)

Mean (SD) Positive Fusional Vergence (Δ)
 Blur/Break 24.0 (10.2) 24.8 (8.4) 10.9 (3.9)
 Recovery 22.1 (7.7) 20.2 (8.0) 8.8 (4.5)

Mean (SD) Phoria (Δ)
 At Near 2.1 exo (2.3) 1.7 exo (2.3) 9.3 exo (4.4)
 At Distance 0.6 exo (1.3) 0.6 exo (1.3) 1.9 exo (2.8)

% with Intermittent Tropia
 At Near 0.0 0.0 10.4
 At Distance 0.0 0.0 2.7

% failed Sheard’s criterion 2.2 0.0 82.3

Mean (SD) Negative Fusional Vergence (Δ)
 Blur/Break 12.8 (4.4) 13.8 (6.2) 11.2 (4.7)
 Recovery 11.0 (3.6) 11.0 (5.6) 9.9 (4.4)

Mean (SD) Monocular (O.D.) Accommodative Amplitude (D) 16.2 (4.1) 17.8 (6.5) 9.9 (3.8)
 % with Accommodative Insufficiency 0.0 5.5 54.8

Mean (SD) Monocular (O.D.) Accommodative Facility (cycles/min) 8.9 (5.8) 11.8 (3.6) 6.5 (4.4)