Laila Tata

Contact

• workRoom B119 Clinical Sciences Building
  Nottingham City Hospital
  Hucknall Road
  Nottingham
  NG5 1PB
  UK
• work0115 823 1353
• fax0115 823
• laila.tata@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Dr Laila Tata obtained her BSc in Physiology at McGill University in Canada, before completing her MSc in Epidemiology at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and her PhD in Epidemiology at University of Nottingham.

Expertise Summary

Keywords:

Epidemiology and statistics, pregnancy, perinatal epidemiology, consequences of chronic disease, drug safety, lung cancer

Teaching Summary

Dr Tata teaches basic and advanced epidemiological methods and statistics for the Master's in Public Health and MSc in Applied Epidemiology courses and is convenor of the modules Classic Examples of… read more

Research Summary

Dr Tata's main area of research interest is the epidemiology of pregnancy and the perinatal period. Her research focuses mainly on adverse drug effects and consequences of chronic illness using… read more

Selected Publications

• RICH AL, TATA LJ, FREE CM, STANLEY RA, PEAKE MD, BALDWIN DR and HUBBARD RB, 2011. Inequalities In Outcomes For Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: The Influence Of Clinical Characteristics And Features Of The Local Lung Cancer Service. Thorax. 66(12), 1078-84
• TATA, LEWIS, MCKEEVER, SMITH, DOYLE, SMEETH, GIBSON, HUBBARD, 2008. Effect of maternal asthma, exacerbations and asthma medication use on congenital malformations in offspring: A United Kingdom population-based study. Thorax. 63, 981-7
• GIBSON JE, HUBBARD RB, SMITH CJP, TATA LJ, BRITTON JR and FOGARTY AW, 2009. The Use of Self-Controlled Analytical Techniques to Assess the Temporal Association Between use of Prescription Medications and the Risk of Motor Vehicle Crashes American Journal of Epidemiology. 169, 761-768
• RICH AL, TATA LJ, FREE CM, STANLEY RA, PEAKE MD, BALDWIN DR and HUBBARD RB, 2011. How Do Patient And Hospital Features Influence Outcomes In Small-Cell Lung Cancer In England? British Journal Of Cancer. 105(6), 746-52

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• Thorax International Journal of Respiratory Medicine- Statistical Editor
• International Epidemiology Association and European Young Epidemiologists- Member
• National Lung Cancer Audit- Data analyst for 2009, 2010 reports

Dr Tata teaches basic and advanced epidemiological methods and statistics for the Master's in Public Health and MSc in Applied Epidemiology courses and is convenor of the modules Classic Examples of Applied Epidemiology and Advanced Epidemiology. She supervises medical student projects, MPH and MSc dissertations, and is currently supervising 5 PhD students.

Current Research

Dr Tata's main area of research interest is the epidemiology of pregnancy and the perinatal period. Her research focuses mainly on adverse drug effects and consequences of chronic illness using general practice databases such as the General Practice Research Database and The Health Improvement Network database, primarily in respiratory medicine and gastroenterology.

Her current studies in perinatal epidemiology involve working in the areas of fertility rates, pregnancy complications and adverse pregnancy outcomes such as birth defects in women with asthma, coeliac disease and other conditions. She is also involved in other research using in primary and secondary care data to assess children's health and later life chronic respiratory illnesses.

She is currently leading a project linking general practice records of mothers and children funded by The Wellcome Trust as a resource for studying outcomes of pregnancy. This provides the opportunity to assess later life childhood outcomes and their relationships to maternal and household factors in the UK. This work is associated with NIHR funding to assess the effects of tobacco use and smoking cessation medications on the unborn child.

Read more about the Assessment of drug safety and the impact of illness in pregnancy using routinely collected primary care data

• ORTON E, KENDRICK D, WEST J and TATA LJ, 2012. Independent Risk Factors For Injury In Pre-School Children: Three Population-Based Nested Case-Control Studies Using Routine Primary Care Data. Plos One. 7(4), e35193
• BAN L, GIBSON JE, WEST J, FIASCHI L, OATES M AND TATA LJ, 2012. Impact of socioeconomic deprivation on maternal perinatal mental illnesses presenting to UK general practice British Journal of General Practice. (In Press.)
• RICH AL, TATA LJ, FREE CM, STANLEY RA, PEAKE MD, BALDWIN DR and HUBBARD RB, 2011. Inequalities In Outcomes For Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: The Influence Of Clinical Characteristics And Features Of The Local Lung Cancer Service. Thorax. 66(12), 1078-84
• RICH AL, TATA LJ, FREE CM, STANLEY RA, PEAKE MD, BALDWIN DR and HUBBARD RB, 2011. How Do Patient And Hospital Features Influence Outcomes In Small-Cell Lung Cancer In England? British Journal Of Cancer. 105(6), 746-52
• XU MY, DENG XL, TATA LJ, HAN H, CHEN XH, LIU TY, CHEN QS, YAO XW and TANG SJ, 2011. Case-Control And Family-Based Association Studies Of Novel Susceptibility Locus 8Q24 In Nonsyndromic Cleft Lip With Or Without Cleft Palate In A Southern Han Chinese Population Located In Guangdong Province. Dna And Cell Biology. (In Press.)
• IYEN-OMOFOMAN B, HUBBARD RB, SMITH CJ, SPARKS E, BRADLEY E, BOURKE A and TATA LJ, 2011. The Distribution Of Lung Cancer Across Sectors Of Society In The United Kingdom: A Study Using National Primary Care Data. Bmc Public Health. 11(1), 857
• SULTAN AA, WEST J, TATA LJ, FLEMING KM, NELSON-PIERCY C and GRAINGE MJ, 2011. Risk Of First Venous Thromboembolism In And Around Pregnancy: A Population-Based Cohort Study. British Journal Of Haematology. 156(3), 366-373
• BAN, LU, GIBSON, JACK E, WEST, JOE and TATA, LAILA J, 2010. Association between perinatal depression in mothers and the risk of childhood infections in offspring: a population-based cohort study. BMC public health. 10, 799
• RICH, ANNA L, TATA, LAILA J, STANLEY, ROSAMUND A, FREE, CATHERINE M, PEAKE, MICHAEL D, BALDWIN, DAVID R and HUBBARD, RICHARD B, 2010. Lung cancer in England: Information from the National Lung Cancer Audit (LUCADA). Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands).
• GIBSON JE, HUBBARD RB, SMITH CJP, TATA LJ, BRITTON JR and FOGARTY AW, 2009. The Use of Self-Controlled Analytical Techniques to Assess the Temporal Association Between use of Prescription Medications and the Risk of Motor Vehicle Crashes American Journal of Epidemiology. 169, 761-768
• TATA, LEWIS, MCKEEVER, SMITH, DOYLE, SMEETH, GIBSON, HUBBARD, 2008. Effect of maternal asthma, exacerbations and asthma medication use on congenital malformations in offspring: A United Kingdom population-based study. Thorax. 63, 981-7
• TATA, L.J., HUBBARD, R.B., MCKEEVER, T.M., SMITH, C.J.P., DOYLE, P., SMEETH, L., WEST, J. and LEWIS, S.A., 2007. Fertility rates in women with asthma, eczema and hay fever: A general population-based cohort study American Journal of Epidemiology. 165(9), 1023-1030
• TATA, L.J., LEWIS, S.A., MCKEEVER, T.M., SMITH, C.J.P., DOYLE, P., SMEETH, L., WEST, J. and HUBBARD,R.B, 2007. A comprehensive analysis of adverse obstetric and paediatric complications in women with asthma. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 175(10), 991-997
• GRIBBIN, J, HUBBARD, R B, LE JEUNE, I, SMITH, C J P, WEST, J and TATA, L J, 2006. Incidence and mortality of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and sarcoidosis in the UK. Thorax. 61(11), 980-5
• MORTIMER, K. J., TATA, L. J., SMITH, C. J. P., WEST, J., HARRISON, T. W., TATTERSFIELD, A. E. and HUBBARD, R. B., 2006. Oral and inhaled corticosteroids and adrenal insufficiency: a case-control study. Thorax. 61(5), 405-8
• TATA, L.J., CARD, T.R., LOGAN, R.F.A., HUBBARD, R.B., SMITH, C.P. and WEST, J., 2005. Fertility and pregnancy-related events in women with celiac disease: a population-based cohort study. Gastroenterology. 128(4), 849-55
• TATA, L.J., FORTUN, P.J., HUBBARD, R.B., SMEETH, L., HAWKEY, C.J., SMITH, C.J.P., WHITAKER, H.J., FARRINGTON, C.P., CARD, T.R. and WEST, J., 2005. Does concurrent prescription of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs substantially increase the risk of upper gastrointestinal bleeding? Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics. 22(3), 175-181
• TATA, L J, WEST, J, SMITH, C, FARRINGTON, P, CARD, T, SMEETH, L and HUBBARD, R, 2005. General population based study of the impact of tricyclic and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressants on the risk of acute myocardial infarction. Heart. 91(4), 465-71
• TATA,L., WEST,J., HARRISON,T., FARRINGTON,P., SMITH,C. and HUBBARD,R., 2003. Does influenza vaccination increase consultations, corticosteroid prescriptions, or exacerbations in subjects with asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease? Thorax. 58(10), 835-39