Does confounding explain the association between PPIs and Clostridium difficile-related diarrhea?

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 278-279

  Freedberg, Daniel E ^a   Abrams, Julian A ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOPIDOGREL; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR;

CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; DEMENTIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LETTER; LIVER DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT INFECTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; HISTAMINE H2 ANTAGONISTS; HUMANS; PROTON PUMP INHIBITORS;

EID: 84873539367     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ajg.2012.395     Document Type: Letter

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