Common heartburn drugs may risk of damage your kidney
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 30-10-2015
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In one study, Pradeep Arora from State University of New York and his team found that among 24,149 patients who developed CKD between 2001 and 2008 (out of a total of 71,516 patients), 25.7 percent were treated with PPIs. PPI use was linked with a 10 percent increased risk of CKD and a 76 percent increased risk of dying prematurely. "As a large number of patients are being treated with PPIs, health care providers need to be better educated about the potential side effects of these drugs, such as CKD," Arora pointed out.