Articles / PPIs in children – an asthma risk
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The recent push-back against adult use of PPIs looks like it should include children with research showing they pose a significant asthma risk in the paediatric population.
According to a Swedish cohort study recently published in JAMA Pediatrics (1), children who are initiated on a proton pump inhibitor have a 57% increased risk of developing asthma.
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