Literature Evaluation Table for Peer-Reviewed Articles About Vaccines

Literature Evaluation Table
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Davidson, M. doi: 10.31887/DCNS.2017.19.4/mdavidson /pmc/articles/PMC5789217/

Li, M., Fallin, M., Riley, A., Landa, R., Walker, S., Silerstein, M., Caruso, D., Pearson, C., Kiang, S., Dahm, J., Hong, X., Wang, G., Wang, M., Wang, X., and Zuckerman, B. doi: 10.1542/peds.2015-2206 /pmc/articles/PMC4732357/

Tran, C. L., Selewski, D. T., Oh, G. J., Troost, J. P., Massengill, S. F., Al-Akash, S. I., ... & Gipson, D. S.. /articles/10.3389/fped.2020.619548/full?utm_source=researcher_app&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=RESR_MRKT_Researcher_inbound

Sadarangani, M. /doi/abs/10.2217/fmb-2019-0187

Article Title and Year Published

Vaccination as a cause of Autism—myths and controversies. Dialogs Clinical Neuroscience. (2017)

The Association of Maternal Obesity and Diabetes With Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities. Pediatrics. (2016)

Pediatric Immunization Practices in Nephrotic Syndrome: An assessment of provider and parental knowledge. Frontiers in pediatrics, 8, 978 (2021).

Separating myths from reality for vaccines causing adverse events following immunization: an interview with Manish Sadarangani. Future microbiology, 14(11), 925-926. (2019).

Research Questions (Qualitative)/Hypothesis (Quantitative), and Purposes/Aim of Study

Does mercury exist in vaccines and are vaccines or mercury associated with autism?

(1) Examine the independent and combined associations of maternal obesity and diabetes with ASD in children controlling for potential confounders; and (2) contrast them with the effects on intellectual disability (ID), attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and other DDs in children.

Whether children with Nephrotic Syndrome are receiving the recommended vaccinations at appropriate times.

The importance of vaccines & separating myths from reality

Design (Type of Quantitative, or Type of Qualitative)

Quantitative

Qualitative

Qualitative

Qualitative

Setting/Sample

Review of literature

2734 mother-child pairs, a subset of the Boston Birth Cohort (BBC) recruited at birth at the Boston Medical Center (BMC)

Parents/guardians of 153 pediatric patients (<18 years old) diagnosed with NS from 2005 to 2018 and 50 pediatric nephrologists from 11 participating centers.

Interview

Methods: Intervention/Instruments

Review of literature

Observation

Survey questionnaires

Review of literature

Analysis

Descriptive statistics

Rates of DDs were compared among exposure groups by using Cox proportional hazard regressions

Descriptive statistics 

Review of literature

Key Findings

Lack of scientific backing for vaccine myths.

Maternal pre-pregnancy obesity and pre-gestational diabetes (PGDM) were each associated with risk of ASD

There is growing ev...