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VOL. 99, NO. 3, MARCH 07

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JOURNAL OF THE NATIONAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION VOL. 99, NO. 3, MARCH 2007

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS

192
Socioeconomic Status and Length of Hospital Stay in Children With Vaso-Occlusive Crises of Sickle Cell Disease
Angela M. Ellison, MD, MSc and Howard Bauchner, MD

201
Racial Disparity and Technology Diffusion: The Case of Cardioverter Defibrillator Implants, 1996–2001
Ava Stanley, MD, MPH; Derek DeLia, PhD; and Joel C. Cantor, ScD

213
Concordance Rates for Smoking among African-American Twins
Keith E. Whitfield, PhD; Gary King, PhD; Stephanie Moller, BA;
Christopher L. Edwards, PhD; Tracy Nelson, MPH, PhD; and David Vandenbergh, PhD

218
Analysis of Prostate Cancer Incidence Using Geographic Information System and Multilevel Modeling
Hong Xiao, PhD; Clement K. Gwede, PhD, MPH, RN; Gebre
Kiros, PhD; and Katherine Milla, PhD

226
Healthy Start Screens for Depression among Urban Pregnant, Postpartum and Interconceptional Women
Alfred R. Harrington, MD, MPH, MBA and Claudia C. Greene-Harrington, MD

232
Cardiac Repolarization Abnormalities and Increased Sympathetic Activity in Scleroderma
Orcun Ciftci, MD; Ahmet Mesut Onat, MD; Bunyamin Yavuz, MD; Ali Akdogan, MD; Kudret Aytemir, MD;
Lale Tokgozoglu, MD; Levent Sahiner, MD; Ali Deniz, MD; Kemal Ureten, MD;
Guler Kizilca, MD; Meral Calguneri, MD; and Ali Oto, MD, Prof, FESC, FACC, FHRS

242
Enrollment of Racial/Ethnic Minorities and Women with HIV in Clinical Research Studies of HIV Medicines
Patrick S Sullivan, DVM, PhD; A.D. McNaghten, PhD, MHSA;
Elin Begley, MPH; Angela Hutchinson, PhD, MPH; and
Victoria A. Cargill, MD, MSCE

254
Why Blacks Do Not Take Part in HIV Vaccine Trials
Demetrius L. Moutsiakis, MD, MPH and Nancy P. Chin, PhD, MPH

258
The STI and HIV Testing Practices of Primary Care Providers
Mitchell Kushner, MD, MPH and M. Rosa Solorio, MD, MPH

265
Examining Differential Treatment Effects for Depression in Racial and Ethnic Minority Women: A Qualitative Systematic Review
Earlise C. Ward, PhD

287
“For the Good of the Patient,” Survey of the Physicians of the National Medical Association Regarding Perceptions of DTC Advertising, Part II, 2006
Albert W. Morris Jr., MD; Sandra L. Gadson, MD; and
Valentine Burroughs, MD, MBA

CASE REPORTS

276
The Prevention of Pain from Sickle Cell Disease by Trandolapril
R. Michael Williams, MD, PhD and David W. Moskowitz, MD, MA (Oxon.), FACP

281
Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy Complicated with Acute Pericarditis and Cardiogenic Shock
Rodolfo Guevara, MD; Melina Aguinaga-Meza, MD;
Moustafa Imran Hazin, DO; Ribhi Hazin, MD; and James McCord, MD, FACC

284
Hepatosteatosis with Hypobetalipoproteinemia
Didem Sen, MD; Selcuk Dagdelen; MD; and Tomris Erbas, MD

EDITORIAL

300
Sickle Cell Trait and Sudden Death—Bringing it Home
Bruce L. Mitchell, MD

ART IN MEDICINE

283
Emphysema
Ribhi Hazin, MD

BOOK RVEVIEWS

295
Anxiety Disorders: Everything You Need to Know
J. Paul Caldwell, MD, CCFP
Reviewed by Marcia Magnus, PhD

Awakening Hippocrates: A Primer on Health, Poverty, and Global Service
Edward O’Neil Jr., MD
Reviewed by Ribhi Hazin, MD

296
The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine: Ethnicity and Innovation in Tay-Sachs, Cystic Fibrosis and Sickle Cell Disease
Keith Wailoo and Stephen Pemberton
Reviewed by Michael G. Kenny
Reviewed by Sarah Boslaugh, PhD, MPH

298
Food Choice and Obesity in Black America: Creating a New Cultural Diet
Eric J. Bailey, PhD, MPH
Reviewed by Sandra Moore, MD

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

306
Update on the Use of Antiplatelet Agents in Secondary Stroke Prevention
Dara G. Jamieson, MD

INFOPOEMS

307
Tennis Elbow: Injection Better Short Term, Worse Long Term SSRIs Effective for Depression after One Week Newer Antidepressants Increase Suicidality in Youths
Effective Treatments for Rosacea

DEPARTMENTS

186
Masthead

190, 191, 225, 309
Career Opportunities

191
About the Cover

191
Answers to CME Quiz

264
Calendar

280
Membership Application

311
Directory

VOL. 99, NO. 3, MARCH 2007