Heartburn Drugs May Put Your Heart on the Line
When acid indigestion makes life miserable, you can pick from plenty of over-the-counter medications. But the one you reach for to treat heartburn might put your actual heart at risk — even if you don’t have a history of heart problems.
That’s what researchers found in a new study published June 10 in the journal PLOS ONE. People who took drugs called proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) for acid indigestion had about a 16 percent higher risk of a heart attack than those not taking them.
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