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Kevin M Swiatek1, Charnetta Lester1, Nicole Ng2
1Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA.
Abstract:
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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