PMID- 29432214 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20190201 LR - 20220321 IS - 1473-6543 (Electronic) IS - 1062-4821 (Linking) VI - 27 IP - 3 DP - 2018 May TI - The association of proton pump inhibitors and chronic kidney disease: cause or confounding? PG - 182-187 LID - 10.1097/MNH.0000000000000406 [doi] AB - PURPOSE OF REVIEW: To discuss whether the recently described relationship between proton pump inhibitor (PPI) use and the risk of adverse kidney outcomes represents a causal relationship or is merely the result of confounding. RECENT FINDINGS: A wave of observational studies has described an association between PPI use and the risk of development of chronic kidney disease and its progression to end-stage renal disease. The results are generally robust and remarkably consistent across different studies. The application of modern pharmacoepidemiologic methods to estimate the effect of a putative unmeasured or unknown confounder or set of confounders on the relationship of PPI use and risk of adverse renal outcomes suggests that confounding is unlikely to explain away the reported association. SUMMARY: The constellation of evidence from all available studies suggests that PPI use is associated with increased risk of adverse kidney outcomes. Exercising vigilance in the use of PPI is warranted. FAU - Li, Tingting AU - Li T AD - Clinical Epidemiology Center, Research and Education Service, VA Saint Louis Healthcare System. AD - Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine. FAU - Xie, Yan AU - Xie Y AD - Clinical Epidemiology Center, Research and Education Service, VA Saint Louis Healthcare System. FAU - Al-Aly, Ziyad AU - Al-Aly Z AD - Clinical Epidemiology Center, Research and Education Service, VA Saint Louis Healthcare System. AD - Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine. AD - Nephrology Section, Medicine Service, VA Saint Louis Healthcare System. AD - Institute for Public Health, Washington University in Saint Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Review PL - England TA - Curr Opin Nephrol Hypertens JT - Current opinion in nephrology and hypertension JID - 9303753 RN - 0 (Proton Pump Inhibitors) SB - IM MH - Confounding Factors, Epidemiologic MH - Disease Progression MH - Humans MH - Proton Pump Inhibitors/*adverse effects MH - Renal Insufficiency, Chronic/*chemically induced/*epidemiology MH - Risk Factors EDAT- 2018/02/13 06:00 MHDA- 2019/02/02 06:00 CRDT- 2018/02/13 06:00 PHST- 2018/02/13 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/02/02 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2018/02/13 06:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1097/MNH.0000000000000406 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Curr Opin Nephrol Hypertens. 2018 May;27(3):182-187. doi: 10.1097/MNH.0000000000000406.