Researchers found an association between the first 3 months of most proton pump inhibitor treatments and hospitalization due to hyponatremia, according to findings recently published in European Journal of Internal Medicine.

“Very little — an occasional case report and two minor observational studies — has previously been published in this area,” Henrik Falhammar, MD, FRACP, PhD, of the department of endocrinology, metabolism and diabetes at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, told Healio Family Medicine.