
Kendra D Sims
Postdoctoral Associate, Epidemiology - Boston University School of Public Health
Biography
Social epidemiology, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders, public policy macrosimulations, epidemiologic methods, health disparities, structural determinants of health
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Publications
- Published on 4/29/2025
Sims KD, Neilands TB, Johnson JK, Tabb LP, Safford MM, Lovasi GS, Judd SE, Bibbins-Domingo K, Glymour MM. Neighborhood characteristics and incident myocardial infarction in US older adults: evaluation in two nationwide cohorts. Am J Epidemiol. 2025 Apr 29. PMID: 40302120.
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- Published on 4/9/2025
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. Identifying and Addressing Housing Insecurity in Older Patients: Trends, Referrals, and Inequities in a California Medical System. Gerontologist. 2025 Apr 09; 65(5). PMID: 40222811.
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- Published on 3/31/2025
Hayes-Larson E, Andrews RM, Kezios KL, Bercu A, Rouanet A, Helmer C, Crane PK, Gibbons L, Klinedinst BS, McEvoy LK, Nichols E, Weuve J, Rajan KB, Hwang PH, Mez J, Farina M, Shaw C, Sims KD, Therneau T, Petersen RC, Bouteloup V, Gross A, Albert M, Morris JC, Masters CL, Resnick SM, Maruff P, Manly JJ, Turney I, Vonk JMJ, Avila-Rieger J, Weigand A, Chen R, Wang J, Proust-Lima C, Mayeda ER. Approaches to timescale choice in cognitive aging research and potential implications for estimated exposure effects: coordinated analyses in ten cohorts of older adults. Epidemiology. 2025 Mar 31. PMID: 40164562.
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- Published on 3/4/2025
Sims KD, Glymour MM, Ncube CN, Willis MD. Invited commentary: improving spatial exposure data for everyone-life-course social context and ascertaining residential history. Am J Epidemiol. 2025 Mar 04; 194(3):573-577. PMID: 39098825.
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- Published on 1/28/2025
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. Extracting Housing and Food Insecurity Information From Clinical Notes Using cTAKES. Health Serv Res. 2025 May; 60 Suppl 3(Suppl 3):e14440. PMID: 39871689.
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- Published on 6/17/2024
Sims KD, Wei PC, Penko JM, Hennessy S, Coxson PG, Mukand NH, Bellows BK, Kazi DS, Zhang Y, Boylan R, Moran AE, Bibbins-Domingo K. Projected Impact of Nonpharmacologic Management of Stage 1 Hypertension Among Lower-Risk US Adults. Hypertension. 2024 Aug; 81(8):1758-1765. PMID: 38881463.
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- Published on 4/15/2024
Adkins-Jackson PB, Kim B, Higgins Tejera C, Ford TN, Gobaud AN, Sherman-Wilkins KJ, Turney IC, Avila-Rieger JF, Sims KD, Okoye SM, Belsky DW, Hill-Jarrett TG, Samuel L, Solomon G, Cleeve JH, Gee G, Thorpe RJ, Crews DC, Hardeman RR, Bailey ZD, Szanton SL, Manly JJ. "Hang Ups, Let Downs, Bad Breaks, Setbacks": Impact of Structural Socioeconomic Racism and Resilience on Cognitive Change Over Time for Persons Racialized as Black. Health Equity. 2024; 8(1):254-268. PMID: 38665381.
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- Published on 3/13/2024
Jimenez MP, Gause EL, Sims KD, Hayes-Larson E, Morris EP, Fletcher E, Manly J, Gilsanz P, Soh Y, Corrada M, Whitmer RA, Glymour MM. Racial and ethnic differences in the association between depressive symptoms and cognitive outcomes in older adults: Findings from KHANDLE and STAR. Alzheimers Dement. 2024 May; 20(5):3147-3156. PMID: 38477489.
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- Published on 3/1/2024
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. Comparison of approaches to control for intracranial volume in research on the association of brain volumes with cognitive outcomes. Hum Brain Mapp. 2024 Mar; 45(4):e26633. PMID: 38433682.
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- Published on 1/24/2024
Hill-Jarrett TG, Choi M, Buto PT, Miramontes S, Thomas MD, Yang Y, Kim MH, Sims KD, Glymour MM. Associations of Everyday and Lifetime Experiences of Discrimination With Willingness to Undergo Alzheimer Disease Predictive Testing. Neurology. 2024 Feb 27; 102(4):e208005. PMID: 38266219.
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