Table 7.

Comparing the increase in accommodative load from monocular to binocular viewing between the fixating and deviating eyes of IXT patients with fixation preferences

Target distance	Fixating eye, D	Deviating eye, D	p *
6 m	0.23 ± 0.58 (−0.51 to 1.88)	0.20 ± 0.58 (−0.82 to 1.12)	0.653
50 cm	0.42 ± 0.73 (−1.55 to 1.38)	0.37 ± 0.77 (−1.74 to 1.44)	0.368
33 cm	0.88 ± 0.74 (−0.07 to 2.56)	0.67 ± 0.68 (−0.63 to 0.62)	0.356
20 cm	0.89 ± 1.05 (−0.44 to 2.81)	0.97 ± 1.08 (−1.63 to 3.07)	0.435

IXT intermittent exotropia, D diopters

^*Mann–Whitney test