A new study led by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has found that childhood vaccinations are not linked to an increased risk of epilepsy in children.
Published in the Journal of Pediatrics, the research also reported that aluminum, used as an adjuvant in vaccines, does not increase the risk of this neurological condition.
The research team stated that epilepsy cases in children under four years of age were not associated with up-to-date vaccination status or the presence of aluminum in vaccines.
The study included 2,089 children aged 1 to 4 years who had epilepsy.
These children were compared with 20,139 children who did not have the condition.
Researchers noted that the majority of children in the study were boys (54 percent), and most were between 12 and 23 months old (69 percent). When their vaccination schedules were examined, no increased risk of neurological disease was found.
