Scott Zimmerman
Research Data Analyst 4
Epidemiology & Biostatistics
School of Medicine

Publications (48)

Top publication keywords:
Population HealthDementiaBiasSocial IsolationHomicideUnited KingdomSocial SupportAlzheimer DiseaseHousingMental Health ServicesSuicideHydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase InhibitorsDiabetes MellitusIncidenceGenetic Predisposition to Disease

• Social and Cardiovascular Risk Factors as Predictors of the Progression from Mild Cognitive Impairment to Dementia in a Large EHR Database.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2026 Miramontes S, Ferguson EL, Zimmerman S, Phelps E, Oskotsky B, Oskotsky TT, Capra JA, Tsoy E, Sirota M, Glymour MM
• Development and validation of a 2-step shared parameter model for dementia imputation in the Cardiovascular Health Study cohort.
  The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2026 Lynch KM, Bennett EE, Liu C, Stapp EK, Levine DA, Glymour MM, Zimmerman SC, Griswold ME, Odden MC, Lopez OL, Power MC
• Income Volatility During Early to Mid-adulthood and 10-year Memory Decline in a Longitudinal Synthetic Cohort.
  Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) 2026 Kezios KL, Zimmerman SC, Buto PT, Glymour M, Zeki Al Hazzouri A
• Type 1 Diabetes and Incident Dementia: An Analysis in the All of Us Cohort.
  Neurology 2026 Pederson AM, Buto P, Zimmerman SC, Velez M, Sims KD, Murchland AR, Wang J, Brennan AT, Glymour MM, Weuve J
• The association of Alzheimer's disease genetic risk with social connectedness in middle- and older ages.
  American journal of epidemiology 2026 Zimmerman SC, Chen R, Thoma M, Pacca L, Hebert J, Riley A, Kim MH, Pederson A, Yang Y, Buto P, Brenowitz WD, Glymour MM, Kotwal A, Torres JM

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• Associations of alcohol use in early and middle adulthood with mid- and late-life cognition - a synthetic cohort approach.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2026 Buto PT, Zimmerman SC, Kezios K, Al Hazzouri AZ, Maria Glymour M
• Constructing and analyzing a synthetic life course cohort based on pooling two data sources: A case study of early adulthood depression symptomatology and late-life cognition.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2026 Zimmerman SC, Buto P, Kezios K, Zeki Al Hazzouri A, Glymour MM
• Early glycemic control and subsequent risk of incident dementia among new metformin users.
  The American journal of medicine 2025 Power MC, Madsen M, Bødkergaard K, Zimmerman SC, Ackley SF, Gilsanz P, Glymour MM, Henderson VW, Sørensen HT, Thomsen RW
• Evaluation of Polygenic Risk Scores for a Possible Genetic Basis of the Inverse Association Between Cancer and Cognitive Decline.
  Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2025 Graff RE, Chen DM, Swinnerton KN, Ackley SF, Ospina-Romero M, Zimmerman SC, Wang J, Buto P, Nierenberg JL, Elahi FM, Lu KP, Witte JS, Glymour MM
• Estimating preclinical amyloid positivity: A case study transporting ADNI to ARIC.
  Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2025 Stapp EK, Mayeda ER, Stuart EA, Gottesman RF, Zimmerman SC, Wong DF, Mosley TH, Griswold ME, Glymour MM, Power MC, Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative
• Clinical modifiers of the association between type 1 diabetes and dementia incidence.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2025 Pederson AM, Buto P, Zimmerman SC, Sims KD, Murchland AR, Wang J, Glymour MM, Weuve J, Gilsanz P, Chi F, Whitmer RA, Brennan AT
• Diagnostic Reversion in Dementia Care: A Real-World Analysis of Mild Cognitive Impairment Diagnoses Following Dementia in a Large Electronic Medical Record System.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2025 Miramontes S, Khan U, Zimmerman S, Ferguson EL, Mills H, Oskotsky B, Phelps E, Oskotsky TT, Capra AJ, Glymour MM, Sirota M, Tsoy E
• Statin Initiation and Dementia Incidence in a Large Health Care System From 1997 to 2020: A Target Trial Emulation Study.
  Neurology 2025 Zimmerman SC, Choi M, Jiang C, Ferguson EL, Hoffmann TJ, Swinnerton K, Oni-Orisan A, Gilsanz P, Meyers TJ, Choudhary V, Whitmer RA, Risch N, Krauss RM, Schaefer CA, Glymour MM
• Uncertainty in the estimated effects of statin initiation on risk of dementia: using a multiverse analysis to assess sources of variability.
  European journal of epidemiology 2025 Ferguson EL, Zimmerman SC, Jiang C, Choi M, Meyers TJ, Hoffmann TJ, Gilsanz P, Wang J, Oni-Orisan A, Whitmer RA, Risch N, Krauss RM, Patel CJ, Schaefer CA, Glymour MM
• Identifying and Addressing Housing Insecurity in Older Patients: Trends, Referrals, and Inequities in a California Medical System.
  The Gerontologist 2025 Ferguson EL, Mehta S, Miramontes S, Choi M, Kim YJ, Hill-Jarrett TG, Cevallos N, Yang Y, Zimmerman SC, Chen R, Kim MH, Sims KD, Schwartz GL
• Association of genetic risk score for Alzheimer's disease with late-life body mass index in all of us: Evaluating reverse causation.
  Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025 Choi M, Zimmerman SC, Buto PT, Wang J, Brenowitz WD, Hoffmann TJ, Hazzouri AZA, Kezios K, Glymour MM
• Detection Bias in EHR-Based Research on Clinical Exposures and Dementia.
  JAMA network open 2025 Wang J, Choi M, Buto P, Kelly JD, La Joie R, Kornak J, Zimmerman SC, Chen R, Raphael E, Schaefer CA, Blacker D, Glymour MM
• Sociodemographic modifiers of effects of statin initiation on dementia incidence: An emulated trial design in a large health care member population with 10+ years of follow-up.
  Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025 Choi M, Zimmerman SC, Jiang C, Wang J, Swinnerton K, Hoffmann TJ, Oni-Orisan A, Ferguson EL, Meyers T, Choudhary V, Whitmer RA, Risch N, Krauss RM, Schaefer CM, Glymour MM, Gilsanz P
• Independent associations of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglyceride levels with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.
  Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025 Ferguson EL, Zimmerman SC, Jiang C, Choi M, Meyers TJ, Hoffmann TJ, Gilsanz P, Oni-Orisan A, Wang J, Whitmer RA, Risch N, Krauss RM, Schaefer CA, Glymour MM
• Extracting Housing and Food Insecurity Information From Clinical Notes Using cTAKES.
  Health services research 2025 Kim MH, Miramontes S, Mehta S, Schwartz GL, Kim YJ, Yang Y, Hill-Jarrett TG, Cevallos N, Chen R, Glymour MM, Ferguson EL, Zimmerman SC, Choi M, Sims KD
• Statistical harmonization of versions of measures across studies using external data: Self-rated health and self-rated memory.
  Annals of epidemiology 2025 Wu Y, Hayes-Larson E, Zhou Y, Bouteloup V, Zimmerman SC, Pederson AM, Planche V, Seamans MJ, Westreich D, Glymour MM, Gibbons LE, Dufouil C, Mayeda ER
• Target Trial Emulation Using Cohort Studies: Estimating the Effect of Antihypertensive Medication Initiation on Incident Dementia.
  Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) 2024 Bennett EE, Liu C, Stapp EK, Gianattasio KZ, Zimmerman SC, Wei J, Griswold ME, Fitzpatrick AL, Gottesman RF, Launer LJ, Windham BG, Levine DA, Fohner AE, Glymour MM, Power MC
• A critique and examination of the polysocial risk score approach: predicting cognition in the Health and Retirement Study.
  American journal of epidemiology 2024 Jawadekar N, Zimmerman S, Lu P, Riley AR, Glymour MM, Kezios K, Al Hazzouri AZ
• Overcoming Data Gaps in Life Course Epidemiology by Matching Across Cohorts.
  Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) 2024 Kezios KL, Zimmerman SC, Buto PT, Rudolph KE, Calonico S, Zeki Al Hazzouri A, Glymour MM
• Representativeness of Participants in the ACCORD Trial Compared to Middle-aged and Older Adults Living with Diabetes in the United States.
  Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) 2024 Ikesu R, Wu Y, Zimmerman SC, Inoue K, Buto P, Power MC, Schaefer CA, Glymour MM, Mayeda ER
• The Association Between Physical Activity and Cognition in a Racially/Ethnically Diverse Cohort of Older Adults: Results From the Kaiser Healthy Aging and Diverse Life Experiences Study.
  Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2024 Almeida ML, Pederson AM, Zimmerman SC, Chen R, Ackley S, Riley A, Eng CW, Whitmer RA, George KM, Peterson RL, Mayeda ER, Gilsanz P, Mungas DM, Farias ST, Glymour MM
• Comparison of approaches to control for intracranial volume in research on the association of brain volumes with cognitive outcomes.
  Human brain mapping 2024 Wang J, Hill-Jarrett T, Buto P, Pederson A, Sims KD, Zimmerman SC, DeVost MA, Ferguson E, Lacar B, Yang Y, Choi M, Caunca MR, La Joie R, Chen R, Glymour MM, Ackley SF
• Genetic risk score for Alzheimer's disease predicts brain volume differences in mid and late life in UK biobank participants.
  Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024 Buto PT, Wang J, La Joie R, Zimmerman SC, Glymour MM, Ackley SF, Hoffmann TJ, Yaffe K, Zeki Al Hazzouri A, Brenowitz WD
• Comparison of Imputation Strategies for Incomplete Longitudinal Data in Life-Course Epidemiology.
  American journal of epidemiology 2023 Shaw C, Wu Y, Zimmerman SC, Hayes-Larson E, Belin TR, Power MC, Glymour MM, Mayeda ER
• Association of cancer history with structural brain aging markers of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias risk.
  Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023 Wang J, Sims KD, Ackley SF, Chen R, Kobayashi LC, Hayes-Larson E, Mayeda ER, Buto P, Zimmerman SC, Graff RE, Glymour MM
• Low- and High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol and Dementia Risk Over 17 Years of Follow-up Among Members of a Large Health Care Plan.
  Neurology 2023 Ferguson EL, Zimmerman SC, Jiang C, Choi M, Swinnerton K, Choudhary V, Meyers TJ, Hoffmann TJ, Gilsanz P, Oni-Orisan A, Whitmer RA, Risch N, Krauss RM, Schaefer CA, Glymour MM
• Metformin Cessation and Dementia Incidence.
  JAMA network open 2023 Zimmerman SC, Ferguson EL, Choudhary V, Ranatunga DK, Oni-Orisan A, Hayes-Larson E, Duarte Folle A, Mayeda ER, Whitmer RA, Gilsanz P, Power MC, Schaefer C, Glymour MM, Ackley SF
• Using an Online Panel to Crosswalk Alternative Measures of Alcohol Use As Fielded in Two National Samples.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2023 Pederson AM, Zimmerman SC, Torres JM, Schmidt LA, Kim YJ, Glymour MM
• Association between cancer and dementia risk in the UK Biobank: evidence of diagnostic bias.
  European journal of epidemiology 2023 Wang J, Buto P, Ackley SF, Kobayashi LC, Graff RE, Zimmerman SC, Hayes-Larson E, Mayeda ER, Asiimwe SB, Calmasini C, Glymour MM
• Propensity Scores in Health Disparities Research: The Example of Cognitive Aging and the Hispanic Paradox.
  Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) 2023 Kezios KL, Zimmerman SC, Zhang A, Calonico S, Jawadekar N, Glymour MM, Zeki Al Hazzouri A
• Discordance in chromosomal and self-reported sex in the UK Biobank: Implications for transgender- and intersex-inclusive data collection.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2023 Ackley SF, Zimmerman SC, Flatt JD, Riley AR, Sevelius J, Duchowny KA
• Associations Between Handgrip Strength and Dementia Risk, Cognition, and Neuroimaging Outcomes in the UK Biobank Cohort Study.
  JAMA network open 2022 Duchowny KA, Ackley SF, Brenowitz WD, Wang J, Zimmerman SC, Caunca MR, Glymour MM
• The Role of Dementia Diagnostic Delay in the Inverse Cancer-Dementia Association.
  The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2022 Hayes-Larson E, Shaw C, Ackley SF, Zimmerman SC, Glymour MM, Graff RE, Witte JS, Kobayashi LC, Mayeda ER
• Association of Genetic Variants Linked to Late-Onset Alzheimer Disease With Cognitive Test Performance by Midlife.
  JAMA network open 2022 Zimmerman SC, Brenowitz WD, Calmasini C, Ackley SF, Graff RE, Asiimwe SB, Staffaroni AM, Hoffmann TJ, Glymour MM
• Association of Social Integration with Cognitive Status in a Multi-Ethnic Cohort: Results From the Kaiser Healthy Aging and Diverse Life Experiences Study.
  Journal of geriatric psychiatry and neurology 2022 Calmasini C, Swinnerton KN, Zimmerman SC, Peterson RL, George KM, Gilsanz P, Hayes-Larson E, Mayeda ER, Mungas DM, Whitmer RA, Glymour MM
• California's Mental Health Services Act and Mortality Due to Suicide, Homicide, and Acute Effects of Alcohol: A Synthetic Control Application.
  American journal of epidemiology 2021 Zimmerman SC, Matthay EC, Rudolph KE, Goin DE, Farkas K, Rowe CL, Ahern J
• Extension of Mendelian Randomization to Identify Earliest Manifestations of Alzheimer Disease: Association of Genetic Risk Score for Alzheimer Disease With Lower Body Mass Index by Age 50 Years.
  American journal of epidemiology 2021 Brenowitz WD, Zimmerman SC, Filshtein TJ, Yaffe K, Walter S, Hoffmann TJ, Jorgenson E, Whitmer RA, Glymour MM
• Proof of Concept Example for Use of Simulation to Allow Data Pooling Despite Privacy Restrictions.
  Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) 2021 Filshtein TJ, Li X, Zimmerman SC, Ackley SF, Glymour MM, Power MC
• Effect of reductions in amyloid levels on cognitive change in randomized trials: instrumental variable meta-analysis.
  BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2021 Ackley SF, Zimmerman SC, Brenowitz WD, Tchetgen Tchetgen EJ, Gold AL, Manly JJ, Mayeda ER, Filshtein TJ, Power MC, Elahi FM, Brickman AM, Glymour MM
• The competing risk of death and selective survival cannot fully explain the inverse cancer-dementia association.
  Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2020 Hayes-Larson E, Ackley SF, Zimmerman SC, Ospina-Romero M, Glymour MM, Graff RE, Witte JS, Kobayashi LC, Mayeda ER
• Firearm and Nonfirearm Violence After Operation Peacemaker Fellowship in Richmond, California, 1996-2016.
  American journal of public health 2019 Matthay EC, Farkas K, Rudolph KE, Zimmerman S, Barragan M, Goin DE, Ahern J
• Exposure to Community Homicide During Pregnancy and Adverse Birth Outcomes: A Within-Community Matched Design.
  Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) 2019 Goin DE, M Gomez A, Farkas K, Zimmerman SC, Matthay EC, Ahern J
• Optimizing matching and analysis combinations for estimating causal effects.
  Scientific reports 2016 Colson KE, Rudolph KE, Zimmerman SC, Goin DE, Stuart EA, Laan Mv, Ahern J