This article later carries out a study to assess if there is a reasonable link between vaccination and type 1 diabetes are found that the available evidence "concluded that it does not support a causal link between vaccination and the onset of type 1 diabetes." One of the reports that further claims are based off came to the conclusion "that in this large population of children there was no increase in the risk of SIDS after immunization with the DTP vaccine." The US Department of Health and Human Services found that "Vaccines often provide long-lasting immunity to serious diseases without the risk of serious illness," suggesting that not only are they not harmful, but they are beneficial.