Impact of Face Masks on 6-Minute Walk Test in Healthy Volunteers

Our objective was to establish the impact of wearing a face mask on the outcome of six-minute walk test in healthy volunteers. In a study of 20 healthy volunteers who each completed two 6MWTs, one with a mask and one without, there was no difference in distance walked. However, there was a significa...

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Autores principales: Swiatek, Kevin M., Lester, Charnetta, Ng, Nicole, Golia, Saahil, Pinson, Janet, Grinnan, Dan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2021
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Research Letter
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7829459/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33532062
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2045894020988437
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description Our objective was to establish the impact of wearing a face mask on the outcome of six-minute walk test in healthy volunteers. In a study of 20 healthy volunteers who each completed two 6MWTs, one with a mask and one without, there was no difference in distance walked. However, there was a significant difference in perception of dyspnea between the two groups.
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spelling pubmed-78294592021-02-01 Impact of Face Masks on 6-Minute Walk Test in Healthy Volunteers Swiatek, Kevin M. Lester, Charnetta Ng, Nicole Golia, Saahil Pinson, Janet Grinnan, Dan Pulm Circ Research Letter Our objective was to establish the impact of wearing a face mask on the outcome of six-minute walk test in healthy volunteers. In a study of 20 healthy volunteers who each completed two 6MWTs, one with a mask and one without, there was no difference in distance walked. However, there was a significant difference in perception of dyspnea between the two groups. SAGE Publications 2021-01-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7829459/ /pubmed/33532062 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2045894020988437 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Creative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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