Effects of medical face masks on physical performance in patients with coronary artery disease and hypertensio

Not Applicable

• Conditions: I10; I25; Essential (primary) hypertension; Chronic ischaemic heart disease

• Registration Number: DRKS00026634
• Lead Sponsor: niversitätsklinikum des Saarlandes

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Completion: 2021-02-19
• Study Start: 2021-09-20
• Last Update Posted: 19 August 2024

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Complete
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 50

Inclusion Criteria

Minimum Age: 18 years

Exclusion Criteria

- Acute coronary syndrome

- Symptomatic high-grade valve vitium

- Decompensated heart failure

- Acute pulmonary embolism

- Acute inflammatory heart disease

- Acute aortic dissection

- Blood pressure at rest >180/100 mmHg

- Acute leg vein thrombosis

- Acute severe general illness

- Extracardiac disease with significantly limited life expectancy (=6 months)

- Untreated severe ventricular arrhythmias

- Symptomatic bradycardia, AV block II° type 2 Mobitz, or AV block III° without pacemaker care

- Limited mobility with need for walkers, wheelchair, or motorized devices and no ability to perform cycle ergometry

- Implanted pacemaker or CRT systems (ICD allowed)

- COPD from stage III

Study & Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Changes in maximum peak power output during exercise test without any mask in comparison to exercise test with surgical mask and FFP2-mask

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
- Changes in metabolic parameters during exercise test <br>- Differences in subjective exhaustion between exercise tests without mask, with surgical mask and FFP2-mask measured via BORG-CR10 scale