Conclusions: Converging mechanistic, neuropathological, epidemiological, and genetic
evidence demonstrates that aluminum adjuvants can trigger ASD in genetically susceptible
individuals through well-characterized neuroinflammatory pathways. The 80-fold increase
in ASD prevalence temporally correlating with vaccine schedule expansion, combined with
robust biological mechanisms and postmortem findings, demands urgent re-examination of aluminum adjuvant safety in the context of neurodevelopment, particularly in genetically vulnerable populations.
Bradford Hill criteria
The Bradford Hill criteria include nine viewpoints by which to evaluate human epidemiologic evidence to determine if causation can be deduced: strength, consistency, specificity, temporality, biological gradient, plausibility, coherence, experiment, and analogy.
Aluminum / Blood brain barrier / Bradford Hill criteria / Epidemiology / HLA / IL-1β / Lymphocytes / MTHFR / Neuroinflammation / NLRP3 / Toxicants
