Journal
BMC MEDICINE
Volume 19, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s12916-021-02180-5
Keywords
Proton pump inhibitor; Stroke; Cohort; Meta-analysis; Randomized control trial
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Funding
- Natural Science Foundation of China [82003408, 82003524, 82103913]
- Startup Fund for the 100 Top Talents Program, SYSU [392012]
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Digestive Cancer Research [2021B1212040006]
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The study found that regular use of PPIs was associated with an increased risk of stroke, with a higher absolute risk observed in individuals with high baseline stroke risk. It is recommended that physicians exercise caution when prescribing PPIs and assess the underlying stroke risk for individualized use.
Background Although randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have suggested a non-significant increased risk of stroke among proton pump inhibitor (PPI) users, the association has not been confirmed. We evaluated the association between regular use of PPIs and incident stroke and identified population groups at high net risk. Methods This is a prospective analysis of 492,479 participants free of stroke from the UK biobank. Incident stroke was identified through linkage to hospital admission and death registries using the International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-10 codes (I60, I61, I63, and I64). We evaluated hazard ratios (HRs) adjusting for demographic factors, lifestyle habits, prevalent comorbidities, concomitant use of medications, and indications of PPIs. We assessed the risk differences (RDs) according to the baseline Framingham Stroke Risk Score. In the meta-analysis, we searched PubMed, EMBASE, and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (from 1988 to 1 June 2020) for randomized trials comparing PPIs with other interventions, placebo, or no treatment on stroke risk. Results were combined using a fix-effect meta-analysis (Mantel-Haenszel method). Results We documented 5182 incident strokes over 3,935,030 person-years of follow-up. Regular PPI users had a 16% higher risk of stroke than non-users (HR 1.16, 95% CI 1.06 to 1.27). The estimated effect was similar to our meta-analysis of nine RCTs (case/participants 371/26,642; RR 1.22, 95% CI 1.00 to 1.50; quality of evidence: moderate). The absolute effect of PPI use on stroke increased with the baseline Framingham Stroke Risk Score, with an RD of 1.34 parts per thousand, 3.32 parts per thousand, 4.83 parts per thousand, and 6.28 parts per thousand over 5 years for the lowest, quartile 2, quartile 3, and the highest quartile, respectively. Conclusions Regular use of PPIs was associated with an increased risk of stroke, with a higher absolute risk observed in individuals with high baseline stroke risk. Physicians should therefore exercise caution when prescribing PPIs. An assessment of the underlying stoke risk is recommended for individualized use of PPIs.
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