Table 2.

Absolute peripheral refractive error and peripheral cylinder with atropine and without atropine groups.

			Emmetropes						Low myopes						Moderate myopes
			Atropine			Nonatropine			Atropine			Nonatropine			Atropine			Nonatropine
			M	J 180	J 45	M	J 180	J 45	M	J 180	J 45	M	J 180	J 45	M	J 180	J 45	M	J 180	J 45
Absolute peripheral refraction at distance	Temporal retinal eccentricity	30°	−1.36	−0.49	−0.11	0.11	0.02	0.28	−1.65	−0.18	0.08	−0.98	−0.23	−0.09	−3.47	0.07	−0.57	−2.92	0.19	0.57
		20°	−1.15	−0.30	0.17	−0.83	−0.09	−0.11	−1.83	0.09	0.01	−1.92	0.08	−0.16	−3.96	−0.08	−0.17	−3.68	−0.07	0.08
		10°	−0.64	0.04	−0.03	−0.27	−0.02	0.04	−1.70	0.03	0.02	−1.78	−0.05	−0.01	−4.05	0.01	−0.00	−3.73	0.08	0.08
	Central	0°	−0.07	0.07	0.09	−0.05	0.01	0.00	−1.52	0.01	0.03	−1.61	0.02	−0.05	−4.15	0.00	−0.08	−3.76	−0.04	0.05
	Nasal retinal eccentricity	10°	−0.14	−0.02	0.00	−0.14	−0.04	−0.04	−1.66	−0.01	−0.01	−1.63	−0.01	0.05	−4.31	−0.04	0.12	−3.70	0.04	0.09
		20°	−0.41	0.09	0.02	−0.22	−0.06	0.03	−1.47	−0.01	0.05	−1.42	0.04	0.13	−4.05	−0.02	0.03	−2.88	−0.12	0.09
		30°	−0.14	−0.19	−0.18	0.01	0.07	−0.06	−1.18	−0.07	−0.03	−0.87	−0.07	0.04	−3.53	−0.05	−0.10	−1.90	0.11	0.20

A, atropine group; N-A, nonatropine group. M = spherical equivalent, J₁₈₀ = J₁₈₀ astigmatism; J₄₅ = J₄₅ astigmatism.