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Prenatal exposure to acid‐suppressive drugs and the risk of childhood asthma: a population‐based <scp>D</scp>anish cohort study
22 Mar 2012
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BACKGROUND: Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) may activate the immune system and cause asthma. AIM: To investigate the association of prenatal exposure to PPIs and histamine 2-receptor antagonists (H2RAs) with risk of asthma. METHODS: In this cohort study, 197,060 singletons born between 1996 and 2008 in northern Denmark were followed until the end of 2009. Data were obtained through Danish medical registries. Asthma...
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