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. 2016 Jun 7;16:77. doi: 10.1186/s12886-016-0260-y

Table 4.

Accommodative load in the right eye of normal controls

Target distance Accommodative load Differencea, D p *
Monocular fixation, D Binocular fixation, D
6 m −0.42 ± 0.76 (−2.13 to 0.38) −0.33 ± 0.79 (−2.50 to 0.81) 0.09 ± 0.28 (−0.69 to 0.37) 0.254
50 cm −1.24 ± 0.64 (−2.63 to −0.38) −1.27 ± 0.49 (−2.63 to −0.75) 0.03 ± 0.36 (0.82 to 0.44) 0.432
33 cm −2.00 ± 0.61 (−2.81 to −0.69) −2.10 ± 0.49 (−2.94 to −1.37) 0.10 ± 0.38 (−0.50 to 0.69) 0.348
20 cm −3.80 ± 0.78 (−5.13 to 2.50) −3.82 ± 0.87 (−4.93 to −2.13) 0.03 ± 0.89 (−1.38 to 1.75) 0.932

D diopters

* Wilcoxon’s signed rank test

a Positive values indicate an increase in accommodative load with binocular viewing compared to monocular viewing