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    Routine childhood vaccinations, nor the aluminum used as vaccine adjuvants, are not associated with an increased risk of epilepsy in young children, according to a new decade long case-control study
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    Routine childhood vaccinations, nor the aluminum used as vaccine adjuvants, are not associated with an increased risk of epilepsy in young children, according to a new decade long case-control study


    Routine childhood vaccinations, nor the aluminum used as vaccine adjuvants, are not associated with an increased risk of epilepsy in young children, according to a new decade long case-control study

    https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-vaccines/no-link-found-between-routine-childhood-vaccines-aluminum-adjuvants-and-epilepsy

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    1. sr_local on

      >Analyzing a decade of pediatric health data from the Vaccine Safety Datalink, which is a collaboration between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and several health care sites that monitor vaccine safety, the team identified 2,089 children diagnosed as having epilepsy from age 1 year to less than 4 years and matched them with 20,139 children without epilepsy based on age, sex, and health care site. 
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      >Most participants were boys (54%) and between the ages of 1 year and 23 months (69%). White non-Hispanics composed the largest ethnicity group in the study (40%).

      >Neither measure was associated with a higher risk of epilepsy. The adjusted odds ratios for both measures did not exceed 1.0. Children with previously established risk factors for epilepsy, including those born prematurely, those with a history of epilepsy, and those with underlying neurologic or medical conditions, had substantially higher odds of developing the condition. 
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      >A subgroup analysis suggested that very young infants (1 to 2 months old) who received vaccines containing the adjuvant combination AH/AP appeared to have about twice the odds of an epilepsy diagnosis compared with those who did not, but the odds did not quite reach statistical significance. “Thus, a follow-up study of medical record reviewed outcomes of epilepsy and afebrile seizures in this age group may be warranted,” write the study authors. 

      [Incident Epilepsy and Vaccination Status or Vaccine Aluminum Exposure in Children Under Age 4 – The Journal of Pediatrics](https://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(26)00032-6/abstract)

    2. creamier_than_u on

      The irony is that basically everyone who was convinced it did cause epilepsy is never going to consider the scientific evidence.

      Since COVID I’ve been amazed by the large scale abandonment of critical thinking, particularly around vaccines.