Your Heartburn Drug Could Be Sending You To An Early Grave, BMJ Open Reveals

People taking a popular kind of heartburn medication may have an elevated risk of death over a five-year period, warns new research.

Participants in the new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis who took proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) emerged with a more pronounced risk of dying over the study period than people who had another kind of heartburn drug and those who didn’t take heartburn drugs at all.

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