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Monday, March 1, 2010
Information about Autism: Vaccines No Longer Linked?
by Alyssa Ast- Babies to Big Kids ExpertFor the past 12 years, a study conducted by a medical journal known as the Lancet has stated the increasing autism levels have been attributed to childhood vaccines-- mainly the MMR vaccine. This in return has caused parents to be on extra alert and heavily weighing the pros and cons about giving their children the vaccines they need. This created a enormous pro/con debate about the safety of vaccines. Many parents began to opt out of giving their children vaccines due to the risk of autism.
In 2004, the Lancet began to doubt its previous information about autism, but still stood firmly behind it. The choice to not vaccinate children became even stronger as autism cases continued to rise. A couple weeks ago, the Lancet has completely revoked their previous study investigation stating autism is linked to childhood vaccines. The Lancet now states there's absolutely NO link between vaccines and autism.
While many parents chose to opt out of giving their children vaccines because of the information about autism scare, the vaccines actually had nothing to do with the condition. Instead, it's now said that autism is caused from the parents age.
The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health conducted a study that produced evidence that autism has a higher likeliness of occurring in children whose mother gave birth at 35 years of age or older. The same results were produced when children had a father that was 40 years of age or older.
The study concluded parents that had their first child and fell within the age range had a much higher chance of having an autistic child. The first child of older parents have at least a three times higher chance of having autism than the second or third child born to older parents. The apparent link between autism and the parents age is believed to be a genetic occurrence. There's apparent genetic damage that occurs when older parents conceive a child, which results in autism.
While the latest evidence does have medical science to back it up, the suspicion remains how trustworthy is this information? The information published by the Lancet was believed for 12 years before a retraction of the information was conducted. This latest study does raise suspicion on just how relevant this information is.
What are your thoughts? Do you think this new evidence is reliable?
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i think a lot of studies are a bunch of crap, but i'm not a researcher so that's easy to say! i like the studies that say older parents give birth to Down Syndrome kids, yet when i look around i see mostly people in their 20s having Down kids. as far as vaccines, we shall see. i've had 5 kids (given birth from age 30 to age 38 so far) and have them all vaccinated (mercury-free). so far all is well. one child, my 2nd, could have a teeny bit of asperger's, but functions well with others and is just a little quirky and much smarter than me!
We were just discussing this in my Pediatric Nursing class...and basically there is little evidence to support the initial study. In fact, not only have several of those authors retracted their support of that research, but the main author has recently been brought up on charges in Europe regarding the initial study. I personally, do not subscribe to the vaccination side of the argument...but until they find a definite cause there won't be an end to the debate anytime soon.
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