One recent medical journal article has brought a lot of concern to patients taking popular gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) medications. The December 27, 2006 Journal of the American Medical Association reports that “Proton Pump Inhibitors (PPIs) Increase the Risk of Hip Fractures.” The article sites a collection of data of 13,556 patients with hip fractures and 135,386 healthy patients all over the age of 50.
It was found that in those taking PPIs (such as Protonix, Prilosec,...
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