Childhood immunization and type 1 diabetes found no link
A Danish study found no link between vaccination against type 1 diabetes and childhood, despite concerns that the two things are connected. A population-based cohort study in the New England Journal of Medicine was published, found no evidence to support a causal relationship. The study prospectively followed all children in Denmark born between 1990 and 2000. Data on the diagnosis of type 1 diabetes were obtained from the Danish National Hospital Register, during the days after vaccination by the National Board of Health were made available.Among the almost 740,000 children, had 681 cases of type 1 diabetes. The researchers found no significant increase in diabetes in the 3 or 4 years after vaccination. This study will hopefully be the last that is necessary to make a
connection between vaccination and diabetes, Dr. Lynne L. Levitsky refute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, wrote in an accompanying editorial. The scientific community must now turn to more important tasks: identifying the genetic and immunological ecological phenomena that actually related to the development of diabetes and ways to prevent and treat this chronic disease.Reference: A Havi et al (2004), childhood vaccination and type 1 diabetes, N Engl J Med 350 (14) from 1380 to 1382 1398 to 1.404