Large analysis finds no clear link between rotavirus vaccination and type 1 diabetes

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A study presented at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes meeting and published in Diabetologia found no clear link between rotavirus vaccination and type 1 diabetes in young children. Although Norway’s incidence of type 1 diabetes among children aged 0.5–5 was 11% higher after vaccine rollout in 2014, the reported analysis does not establish that vaccination caused the increase.

New research presented at the annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in Milan, Italy (Sept. 28–Oct. 2), and published in Diabetologia shows that the incidence (the new case rate) of type 1 diabetes (T1D) in children ages 0.5–5 years in Norway was 11% higher following the rapid rollout and uptake of the rotavirus vaccine in September 2014. The study is by doctoral student Maria Östman, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, and colleagues.