45 Table 25 Analysis of Coconut Crabsfor Sr* and Cs'*’ Per kg Crab No. l 2 Tissue , Sr”?,pC Cs*7,pC Liver Exoskeleton Muscle (edible) Remainingsoft parts 4,400 172,502 5,757 5,631 2,679 94,074 4,994 4,470 Total crab 70,703 39,292 Liver 2,287 Ca,g Sr®, pC Cs*7,pC =—Ca,g Sr, pC/g Ca 6.88 198.39 6.57 6.56 999 68,285 1,708 516 608 37,239 1,482 410 1.56 78.53 1.95 0.60 639 869 876 858 81.71 71,508 39,739 82.64 865 5.80 571 295 0.75 764 Exoskeleton Muscle (edible) 123,318 3,980 95,724 5,757 197.75 5.50 45,287 937 35,154 1,355 72.62 1.30 0.60 825 Total crab 57,766 45,318 91.94 47,292 37,101 75.27 628 0.48 847 0.30 692 Remaining soft parts 3 4,428 Total Liver 5,711 8,650 3,414 5431 6.92 10.21 497 335 297 502 Exoskeleton Muscle(edible) 146,956 6,010 143,758 12,716 187.90 7.74 30,817 978 30,146 2,069 39.40 1.26 Total crab 64,847 66,234 83.09 32,341 33,033 41.44 Remaining soft parts 4,316 6,475 Summarizing Discussion HEALTH STATUS Medical evaluation of the health status of the exposed Rongelap people over the years since the accident has revealed about the sameincidenceof illness and disease as in the unexposed population with the exceptions noted below. General health and nutrition has continued to be satisfactory and comparable to that of the unexposed comparison population. Annual hematological follow-up studies have revealed that the levels of white cells and platelets of the peripheral blood in the exposed group have never quite reachedthelevels of the unexposed comparison population. This was again demonstrated in the 9 and 10-year surveys and canbe readily seen in the accumulative distribution curves (Figures 23 and 35). Bone marrow examinationsofa few individuals at 9 and 10 years post exposure showed a reduced myeloid-erythroid ratio with slight increase of immature red and white cells in some cases. There has been no indication that these findings have impaired the general health or response to disease in the exposed people. 2008026 6.23 211 316 623 723 782 776 780 MORTALITY There were 10 deaths in the exposed population over the 10-year period. Of these, two deaths were due to malignancies. Neither of these could be ascribed reasonably to radiation exposure. The somewhathigher death rate in the exposed group is partly offset by the higher proportion of older people, those >65 years of age being 20% in the exposed group and only 7% in the unexposed group. This mortality rate is also higher than in the Marshallese as a whole, but notsignificantly so. Evaluation ofeffects of exposure on longevity in this group must await future findings. AGING No specific aging studies were carried out during the past two surveys, but attempts were made during several previous surveys to put on a quantitative basis variouscriteria of aging (skin elasticity, skin looseness, hand strength, blood pressure, arteriosclerosis, accommodation and arcussenilis of the eyes, greyness of hair, degree of baldness, etc.). No detectable radiation-induced agingeffects have been noted. Aging scores evaluatedat 6