8 A case-control study that compared 25,956 patients who had vitamin B 12 deficiency with 184,199 control patients found a significantly increased risk of vitamin B 12 deficiency in patients who had taken proton pump inhibitors (odds ratio = 1.65) or histamine H 2 blockers (odds ratio = 1.25) for at least two years
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Funding: This is part of the project ROBUST: Trustworthy AI-based Systems for Sustainable Growth with project number KICH3.LTP.20.006, which is (partly) financed by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), Philips Medical Systems Nederland B.V., and the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy (EZK) under the program LTP KIC 2020-2023
[DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar] 69.Salven P, Lymboussaki A, Heikkil P, Jskela-Saari H, Enholm B, Aase K, et al
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