Table 6.

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

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

IXT intermittent exotropia, D diopters

^*Mann–Whitney test