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Some Side Effects Observed In Children After Hepatitis B Vaccinations.
2001 MAR 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) --
by Sonia Nichols, staff medical writer -- A report on adverse events following hepatitis B vaccination in young children indicates a small, but positive relationship between the vaccine and some side effects.
The report, published in the Annals of Epidemiology, drew information from the 1993 and 1994 U.S. National Health Interview Surveys and included 12,000 children less than six-years-old who received hepatitis B immunizations.
While two of the reported side effects, ear infections and pharyngitis/nasopharyngitis, were worrisome, the third, arthritis, poses the biggest risk for the children, the researchers said.
"The evaluation of the association between hepatitis B vaccine and chronic arthritis provides needed data, relevant to the Institute of Medicine's report that there are inadequate data available to assess the causal relationship of hepatitis B vaccine to arthritis risk," M.A. Fisher et al. noted.
Using statistical analysis, Fisher and co-workers at the University of Michigan determined that there was a relationship, albeit small, between hepatitis B vaccine and some adverse events ("Adverse events associated with hepatitis B vaccine in U.S. children less than six years of age, ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Some Side Effects Observed In Children After Hepatitis B Vaccinations.