Lod 37 wl ik MALES ‘963 a E - z * || : : Zoe # Rec «10% s5 + \ 4 Or | | 3 r fl 19 4 20 ~ i i 4. L 40 x 60 AGE (years) TO LL. 80 i 90 id Figure 46. Hemoglobin values of exposed males plotted against age. Solid line represents mean level! of unexposed male population, 1964. T r T 3% 40 50 60 AGE | years) ” 80 30 Figure 48. RBC values of exposed maies plotted against age. Solid line represents mean level of unexposed male population, 1963. T FEMALES |964 6r 20 FEMALES .963 \ ~ | é > z . ‘Ab « ish zi a * e . s a a * * . . + . °. * ZL tad = 4 a : e oe 4 , REC. 1O°4 ir ' , : = I 19 2 @) a0 50 AGE (years) 60 70 80 90 Figure 47. Hemoglobin values of exposed females plotted 0 20 30 ag 50 60 70 80 90 AGE \ years) Figure 49. RBC values of exposed femaies plotted against against age. Solid line represents mean level of unexposed femaie population, 1964. age. Solid line represents mean level of unexposed female population, 1963. Ailingnae Population. The 16 people in the Ailingnae population that were examined during wasofinterest that the platelet counts for all age groups averaged considerably higher in the Utirik those of the higher dose Rongelap group. The 10- The explanationfor this is not apparent. The erythrocytes, hemoglobin, and hematocrit levels were about the sameas in the unexposed Rongelap people. Chiidren of Exposed Parents. Blood counts of these two years showed blood counts similar to year platelet counts in the Ailingnae women were considerably higher than the previous counts; the reason for this is not apparent. The blood data on this group of people are summarized in Tables 18 and 19 and Appendix 2. Utirik Population. The people of Utirik Atoll who had been exposed to a very low dose of radiation (an estimated 14 rads of whole-body gamma radiation) had leukocyte, neutrophil, and lymphocyte counts of about the samelevels as seen in the unexposed comparison population of Rongelap (Tabie 18 and Appendices 3 and 4}. However, it people than in the Rongelap unexposed population. children of exposed parents compared with those of the children of parents in the comparison population showed no significant differences. These data are tabulated in Tables 18 and 19 and Ap- pendices 4 and 5. During the 7th and &th-vear surveys these children had shown slightly lower levels of leukocytes and platelets compared with children of unexposed parents. This difference is not apparentat this time.