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FRIDAY, June 14, 2019 (HealthDay News) — Completion of full rotavirus vaccination appears to be associated with a reduction in the risk of type 1 diabetes in children, according to a study published online June 13 in Scientific Reports<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Mary A.M. Rogers, Ph.D., from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and colleagues utilized data from a nationwide health insurer for 1,474,535 infants in the United States from 2001 to 2017 to examine the correlation between rotavirus vaccination and incidence of type 1 diabetes.<\/p>\n
The researchers found that compared with no rotavirus vaccination, completion of the rotavirus vaccine series correlated with a 33 percent reduction in the risk for type 1 diabetes. The risk for type 1 diabetes was 37 percent lower with completion of the pentavalent vaccine series. No correlation was noted for partial vaccination (incompletion of the series) with the incidence of type 1 diabetes. Compared with unvaccinated children, in the 60-day period after vaccination, there was a 31 percent reduction in hospitalizations. Overall, a 3.4 percent decrease in the incidence rates of type 1 diabetes was seen annually in children aged 0 to 4 years in the United States from 2006 to 2017, correlating with introduction of the vaccine in 2006.<\/p>\n
“While additional studies are needed to explore this association in more detail, it is possible that rotavirus vaccination may be the first practical measure that could play a role in the prevention of this disease,” the authors write.<\/p>\n