Study finds link between pain reliever to kidney injury in endurance runners

SAN FRANCISCO: A new study finds that the common practice of taking ibuprofen for pain relief while competing in ultramarathons causes a large increase in acute kidney injury.

As a result, according to the study by researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine and several other institutions, people who take the painkiller ibuprofen while running very long distances double their risk of acute kidney injury.