Data from Sweden used to examine PPI use, risk of fracture in children

What The Study Did: Data from Sweden were used to compare 115,933 pairs of children who did or didn't use proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) to examine the association between PPI use and risk of fracture in children.

Author: Yun-Han Wang, M.Sc., B.Pharm., of the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, is the corresponding author.

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(doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.0007)

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