“…There were 7,534 studies identified in the preliminary electronic database search. After tiered screening, a total of 18 articles were selected for the quantitative analysis, including 2 RCTs (Bhatt et al, 2010;Gargiulo et al, 2016), 3 post hoc analyses of RCTs (Goodman, 2012;O'Donoghue, 2009;Simon, 2011), and 13 cohort studies (Aihara, 2012;Burkard, 2012;Chandrasekhar, 2017;Gaglia, 2010;Harjai, 2011;Hokimoto, 2014;Maret-Ouda, 2021;Mohammed, 2021;Sarafoff, 2010;Tentzeris, 2010;Weisz, 2015;Zou, 2014). PPIs were used by 64,784 of the 173,508 patients (37.34%), and 108,700 patients did not use PPIs.…”