Tobias Kurth, MD, ScD
Associate Epidemiologist, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health
Contact information:
Office address:
Division of Preventive Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital
900 Commonwealth Avenue East, 3rd Floor
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
Phone: 617-732-8355
FAX: 617-734-1473
E-mail: tkurth@rics.bwh.harvard.edu
Primary research interests:
(1) The study of interrelation between vascular risk factors, headache, cardiovascular disease, and chronic kidney disease in aging populations with particular focus on stroke and migraine;
(2) The evaluation of risk and benefits of over-the-counter analgesic use;
(3) The evaluation and application of propensity score methods.
Selected publications:
Kurth T, Gaziano JM, Berger K, Kase CS, Rexrode KM, Cook NR, Buring JE, and Manson JE. Body mass index and the risk of stroke in men. Arch Intern Med 2002; 162(22):2557-62.
Kurth T, Kase CS, Berger K, Schaeffner ES, Buring JE, and Gaziano JM. Smoking and the risk of hemorrhagic stroke in men. Stroke 2003; 34(5):1151-1155.
Kurth T, Glynn RJ, Walker AM, Rexrode KM, Buring JE, Stampfer MJ, Hennekens CH, and Gaziano JM. Analgesic use and change in kidney function in apparently healthy men. Am J Kidney Dis 2003; 42(2):234-244.
Kurth T, Glynn RG, Walker AM, Chan KA, Buring JE, Hennekens CH, and Gaziano JM. Inhibition of clinical benefits of aspirin on first myocardial infarction by nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs. Circulation 2003; 108(10):1191-1195.
Schaeffner ES, Kurth T, Curhan GC, Glynn RG, Rexrode KM, Baigent C, Buring JE, and Gaziano JM. Cholesterol and the risk of renal dysfunction in apparently healthy men. J Am Soc Nephrol 2003; 14(8):2084-2091.
Katsarava Z, Schneeweiss S, Kurth T, Kroener U, Fritsche G, Eikermann A, Diener HC, and Limmroth V. Incidence and predictors for chronicity of headache in patients with episodic migraine. Neurology 2004; 62(5):788-790.
Kurth T, Slomke MA, Kase CS, Cook NR, Lee IM, Gaziano JM, Diener HC, and Buring JE. Migraine, headache, and the risk of stroke in women: a prospective study. Neurology 2005; 64(6):1020-1026.
Kurth T, Gaziano JM, Rexrode KM, Kase CS, Cook NR, Manson JE, and Buring JE. Prospective study of body mass index and risk of stroke in apparently healthy women. Circulation 2005; 111(15):1992-1998.
Kurth T, Hennekens CH, Stürmer T, Sesso HD, Glynn RJ, Buring JE, and Gaziano JM. Analgesic use and risk of subsequent hypertension in apparently healthy men. Arch Intern Med 2005; 165(16): 1903-1909.
Kurth T, Walker AM, Glynn RJ, Chan KA, Gaziano JM, Berger K, and Robins JM. Results of multivariable logistic regression, propensity matching, propensity adjustment, and propensity-based weighting under conditions of non-uniform effect. Am J Epidemiol 2006; 163(3):262-270.
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