Heartburn Drugs Linked to Dementia in Seniors

(NaturalPath) According to a German study published in the medical journal JAMA Neurology, seniors who regularly took proton-pump inhibitors like Nexium, Prilosec, and Prevacid were 44 percent more likely to end up with dementia. Proton-pump inhibitors are used to decrease stomach acid and help with heartburn. The study included more than 73,000 elderly individuals, tracking which […]