"The new study, comprising 47,155 nine-year-old children who had been continuously enrolled in the Florida Medicaid program, found that: 1) visits involving vaccinations were associated with significantly increased odds for all measured neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs); 2) children born preterm and vaccinated were significantly more likely to have been diagnosed with at least one NDD than those born preterm and unvaccinated; and 3) the relative risk of diagnosis with ASD increased according to the number of visits that included vaccinations.
These results suggest that the current vaccination schedule may be contributing to multiple forms of NDD; that preterm birth, an inflammatory condition (1), coupled with vaccination appears to be strongly associated with increased odds of all of the measured NDDs compared to preterm birth in the absence of vaccination; and increasing numbers of visits that included vaccinations were associated with increased risks of ASD. "
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