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Using Acid Reflux Drugs Makes You 24% More Likely to Develop Type 2 Diabetes

Acid reflux reduction drugs called proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) may increase your risk of developing diabetes by 24%, according to a new study. What this means is that for every 1,000 people taking PPIs regularly, 7.44 will develop diabetes, as opposed to 4.32 who don’t take the drugs.

Study authors said that in those who took PPIs more than two years, there was a 26% increased risk of developing diabetes.

 

SOURCE: Daily Mail September 28, 2020