Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease or Proton Pump Inhibitor Use?: A Controversy Over the Association of Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Pulmonary Disease

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Respiratory Medicine, National Hospital Organization Kinki-Chuo Chest Medical Center, Osaka, Japan.
• ² Department of Healthcare Economics and Quality Management, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto City, Japan.
• ³ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.
• ⁴ Innovation Center for Translational Research, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Aichi, Japan.
• ⁵ Department of General Medicine, Hashimoto Municipal Hospital, Wakayama, Japan.
• ⁶ Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan.
• ⁷ Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. Electronic address: [email protected].