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Long-term proton pump inhibitor therapy leads to small bowel bacterial overgrowth as determined by breath hydrogen and methane excretion

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2017

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Agnieszka Sieczkowska, Piotr Landowski, Artur Gibas, Barbara Kamińska, Carlos H. Lifschitz

Journal of Breath Research

Abstract

Long-term PPI use was found to be significantly associated with SBBO development as determined by breath H<sub>2</sub> and CH<sub>4</sub> excretion. CH<sub>4</sub> determination reduces the number of falsely negative test results.

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