Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, director, Clinical Epidemiology Center, VA St. Louis Health Care System, and assistant professor of medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis. He is senior author of the study “Estimates of all cause mortality and cause specific mortality associated with proton pump inhibitors among US veterans: cohort study,” published in BMJ.
New research now determines the three leading causes of death from taking proton pump inhibitor (PPI) drugs long-term.