Natalie Staplin

PhD

MRC PHRU Senior Statistician

Natalie is a Senior Statistician within the Renal Studies Group at the Clinical Trials Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU). She is also a lecturer on the MSc in Global Health Sciences. She joined CTSU in 2012 after completing an undergraduate degree in Mathematics with Actuarial Science and a PhD in Statistics. Her current research interests are epidemiological analyses of patients with chronic kidney disease to identify risk factors associated with vascular events or progression to end-stage renal disease. She is particularly interested in competing risks methodology and the use of directed acyclic graphs in observational analyses.

Recent publications

UMOD-ulating CKD risk: untangling the relationship between urinary uromodulin, blood pressure, and kidney disease
Journal article

Turner M. and Staplin N., (2021), Kidney International, 100, 1168 - 1170
Colchicine in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 (RECOVERY): a randomised, controlled, open-label, platform trial
Journal article

Horby PW. et al, (2021), Lancet Respiratory Medicine, 9, 1419 - 1426
Aspirin in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 (RECOVERY): a randomised, controlled, open-label, platform trial
Journal article

LANDRAY M. et al, (2021), The Lancet
Tocilizumab in COVID-19 therapy: who benefits, and how? - Authors' reply.
Working paper

Horby P. et al, (2021), Lancet, 398
Association Between Administration of IL-6 Antagonists and Mortality Among Patients Hospitalized for COVID-19: A Meta-analysis.
Journal article

WHO Rapid Evidence Appraisal for COVID-19 Therapies (REACT) Working Group None. et al, (2021), JAMA