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2004 APR 21 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers have determined there is no link between childhood vaccines and the development of diabetes, the latest study to find no such connection.
Using birth and medical registries, Danish researchers checked vaccination records and cases of Type 1 diabetes for the more than 739,000 children born between 1990 and 2000 in Denmark.
They found no more cases of Type 1 diabetes among vaccinated children compared with unvaccinated children. There also was no increase seen in children with a sibling with diabetes, who are at higher risk of developing the disorder, the researchers reported in the April 1, 2004, edition of New England Journal of Medicine.
Type 1 diabetes is increasing in developed countries, where childhood immunization is widespread. That is one of the main reasons some have proposed a link.
"This study will, one hopes, be the last one that is necessary to disprove an association between immunizations and diabetes," Lynne L. Levitsky, MD, of Harvard ...