Popular stomach acid reducer triples risk of developing pneumonia

Monday, September 14, 2009 - 10:49 in Health & Medicine

A popular stomach-acid reducer used to prevent stress ulcers in critically ill patients needing breathing machine support increases the risk of those patients contracting pneumonia threefold, according to researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.

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