A nationwide epidemiological survey of adolescent patients with diverse symptoms similar to those following human papillomavirus vaccination: background prevalence and incidence for considering vaccine safety in Japan

CONCLUSION: Adolescent Japanese girls without HPV vaccination also visited hospitals with diverse symptoms similar to those following HPV vaccination. Our findings predicted the medical demands for diverse symptoms that are temporally associated with but not caused by vaccination of Japanese adolescents.PMID:34719583 | DOI:10.2188/jea.JE20210277

Source: Journal of Epidemiology - November 1, 2021 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Wakaba Fukushima Megumi Hara Yuri Kitamura Masahiko Shibata Yoshikazu Ugawa Koichi Hirata Akira Oka Shinya Miyamoto Susumu Kusunoki Satoshi Kuwabara Shuji Hashimoto Tomotaka Sobue Source Type: research