ArticleERJ open research2020
The impact of a heat and moisture exchange mask on respiratory symptoms and airway response to exercise in asthma.
Article in ERJ open research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 18 citations in OpenAlex.
- Cough monitoring systems in adults with chronic respiratory diseases: a systematic review.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2025Pooled it
- Objective and Subjective Measurement of Cough in Asthma: A Systematic Review of the Literature.Lung · 2022Pooled it
- Pooled it
- A heat and moisture-exchanging mask impairs self-paced maximal running performance in a sub-zero environment.European journal of applied physiology · 2021Trial
- Influence of an Exercise-Specific Face Mask on Physiological and Perceptual Responses to Graded Exercise.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2024Article
- Elite skiers' experiences of heat- and moisture-exchanging devices and training and competition in the cold: A qualitative survey.Health science reports · 2023Article
- Chronic cough-the limitation and advances in assessment techniques.Journal of thoracic disease · 2022Review
- Diagnosis and management of allergy and respiratory disorders in sport: An EAACI task force position paper.Allergy · 2022Article
- Is airway damage during physical exercise related to airway dehydration? Inputs from a computational model.Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2022Article
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Abstract
Respiratory symptoms, including cough, are prevalent in individuals with asthma when exercising. This study investigates whether a heat and moisture exchanger (HME) face mask is effective in modulating exercise-induced bronchoconstriction (EIB) and post-exercise cough in a cold, dry environment in individuals with asthma. Twenty-six participants diagnosed with asthma (20 males, 6 females) completed three cycling exercise challenges at 8°C and 24% relative humidity in a randomised order. Participants wore either an HME mask (MASK), sham mask (SHAM), or no mask (CONT). Following a 3-min warm-up, participants completed 6-min cycling at 80% peak power output. Before and after exercise, maximal flow-volume loops were recorded. Post-exercise cough was monitored with a Leicester Cough Monitor (LCM) for 24 h. Results were analysed using repeated-measures ANOVA and Friedman's tests and data were presented as the mean±sd or median (interquartile range (IQR)). Eleven participants failed to demonstrate EIB (
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