“…Of 7336 articles, 5,310 were screened after removal of duplicate publications. After screening of the titles and abstracts, the full texts of 86 articles were assessed, of which 22 met the inclusion criteria ( Ng et al, 2008 ; Gao et al, 2009 ; Ho et al, 2009 ; Juurlink et al, 2009 ; O'Donoghue et al, 2009 ; Rassen et al, 2009 ; Bhatt et al, 2010 ; Charlot et al, 2010 ; Kreutz et al, 2010 ; Ray et al, 2010 ; Ren et al, 2011 ; Simon et al, 2011 ; Wu et al, 2011 ; Goodman et al, 2012 ; Schmidt et al, 2012 ; Jiang et al, 2013 ; Hokimoto et al, 2014 ; Yan et al, 2016 ; Jensen et al, 2017 ; Hoedemaker et al, 2019 ; Sehested et al, 2019 and Zhang et al, 2019 ). The lack of data on individual PPIs and only unadjusted outcomes presented were the most common reasons for exclusion.…”