Proton-pump inhibitor use is not associated with severe COVID-19-related outcomes: a propensity score-weighted analysis of a national veteran cohort

Affiliations

• ¹ Gastroenterology Section, VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, California, USA s6shah@health.ucsd.edu.
• ² Division of Gastroenterology, University of California, San Diego, California, USA.
• ³ Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
• ⁴ Department of Public Health, Harvard University T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
• ⁵ Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
• ⁶ Clinical Services Research and Development, VA Tennessee Valley, Nashville, TN, USA.
• ⁷ Health Services Research and Development, VA Tennessee Valley, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
• ⁸ The Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
• ⁹ University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
• ¹⁰ VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
• ¹¹ Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
• ¹² Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA.
• ¹³ Center of Excellence for Stress & Mental Health, VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, California, USA.
• ¹⁴ Division of Gastroenterology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
• ¹⁵ Gastroenterology Section, Durham VA Health Care System, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
• ¹⁶ Division of Nephrology & Hypertension, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
• ¹⁷ Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
• ¹⁸ VA Geriatrics Research Education and Clinical Center (GRECC), VA Tennessee Valley Health System, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.