Impact of face masks during the treadmill exercise tests.

Autor:	Wangüemert Pérez F; Cardiavant, Centro Médico Cardiológico, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, España. Electronic address: fwanguemert@mac.com., Wangüemert Guerra M; Cardiavant, Centro Médico Cardiológico, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, España., Caballero Dorta E; Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Universitario de Gran Canaria Dr. Negrín, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, España., Acosta Materan CJ; Cardiavant, Centro Médico Cardiológico, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, España., Tormo Juarez JP; Cardiavant, Centro Médico Cardiológico, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, España., Godoy Camacho C; Cardiavant, Centro Médico Cardiológico, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, España., Cardenes Leon A; Cardiavant, Centro Médico Cardiológico, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, España., Segura Villalobos F; Cardiavant, Centro Médico Cardiológico, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, España., Medina Gil JM; Cardiavant, Centro Médico Cardiológico, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, España., Perez ML; Cardiavant, Centro Médico Cardiológico, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, España., García Salvador JJ; Cardiavant, Centro Médico Cardiológico, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, España., Mateos Cañero GO; Cardiavant, Centro Médico Cardiológico, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, España., Jiménez Rivero C; Cardiavant, Centro Médico Cardiológico, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, España., Martínez-Quintana E; Cardiavant, Centro Médico Cardiológico, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, España. Electronic address: efrencardio@gmail.com.
Jazyk:	English; Spanish; Castilian
Zdroj:	Medicina clinica [Med Clin (Barc)] 2023 Feb 10; Vol. 160 (3), pp. 101-106. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Jun 24.
DOI:	10.1016/j.medcli.2022.05.006
Abstrakt:	Introduction and Objective: There is little literature on the use of face masks in a treadmill test (TMT) during the COVID-19 pandemic. The objective of this study is to analyze the impact of face masks during a TMT performed during the prepandemic (without face mask) and postpandemic (with face mask) era. Methods: Retrospective observational unicentric study of patients undergoing TMT. The inclusion criterion were being over 16years old and having performed at least one TMT in the prepandemic and postpandemic period. Results: One thousand six hundred fifty-five patients were included in the study. Nine hundred thirty-five (56.5%) were men and 720 (43.5%) women. The mean age was 57.3±14.9 and the mean follow-up time was 15.4 months. Fifty-three percent patients had arterial hypertension, 20% dyslipidemia, 12% diabetes mellitus, 8% smoking habit, 19% personal history of ischemic heart disease, 5% COPD, 8% bronchial asthma, and 8% atrial fibrillation. In almost all the variables studied in PE, including the appearance of ventricular arrhythmias, no significant differences were found, neither by age nor sex, except for the existence of a very slight decrease in exercise capacity with mask use in older patients (>65years). Conclusions: The use of surgical or FFP2 face masks during the TMT did not affect functional capacity, blood pressure, heart rate, or increased ventricular arrhythmias. (Copyright © 2022 Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved.)
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