Popular Stomach Acid Reducer Triples Risk Of Developing Pneumonia, Study Suggests

Tuesday, September 15, 2009 - 17:21 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.

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