Abstract
For the majority of apparently healthy adults, mask wearing while at rest or during activities of daily living is recommended to be safe and effective for reducing the risk of person-to-person airborne transmission of SARS-Cov-2.1,2 Original research has yet to find evidence showing an effect of mask wearing on clinical indicators of exercise safety.3 In this study, we tested whether mask wearing during exercise stress testing (EST) to peak exhaustion provokes clinically indicated safety concerns.
Highlights
For the majority of apparently healthy adults, mask wearing while at rest or during activities of daily living is recommended to be safe and effective for reducing the risk of person-to-person airborne transmission of SARS-Cov-2.1,2 Original research has yet to find evidence showing an effect of mask wearing on clinical indicators of exercise safety.3 In this study, we tested whether mask wearing during exercise stress testing (EST) to peak exhaustion provokes clinically indicated safety concerns
Symptoms were consistently severest during EST with a mask
Adjusting comparisons of peak V exercise oxygen uptake (O2) for perceived breathing resistance resulted in no significant experimental condition main effect (Figure)
Summary
For the majority of apparently healthy adults, mask wearing while at rest or during activities of daily living is recommended to be safe and effective for reducing the risk of person-to-person airborne transmission of SARS-Cov-2.1,2 Original research has yet to find evidence showing an effect of mask wearing on clinical indicators of exercise safety.3 In this study, we tested whether mask wearing during exercise stress testing (EST) to peak exhaustion provokes clinically indicated safety concerns.
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