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Notably, this isn't the first study to raise an uncertain, correlation risk about PPIs. A specialist, or in many cases even a GP, should be aware of the topic a
by Bartweiss 9y ago
Notably, this isn't the first study to raise an uncertain, correlation risk about PPIs. A specialist, or in many cases even a GP, should be aware of the topic and able to answer questions.
I'm also a bit disturbed to see people framing this as "comfort versus cancer" - seeing as untreated acid reflux can be a cause of esophageal cancer, "I'll just quit without asking a doctor" is far from a sound course of action.
- archagon 9y agoI wish there was more info out there on the risks for reflux -> Barret’s -> cancer. I could barely find anything when I last looked, except that frequent reflux sufferers are advised to get an endoscopy once every few years. (So I guess Barret's develops pretty slowly?) Also, the fact that smoking is correlated with both reflux and cancer significantly confounds the issue.