Table 9
Physical Findings in Rongelap and Uurik Adults, 1967-69
Rongelap exposed
(49 examined)
Subject Nos.
Anemia
Aphakia
7
Arteriosclerosis (mild)
Arteriosclerosis
(moderate to severe)
Asthma
Atrial fibrillation
Bradycardia
Cardiac enlargement
Cervical erosion
or laceration
Cystourethro-rectocele
Deafness
Diabetes mellitus
-
i1, 70
58, 68, 80
4,7, 41,38, 63, 78, 79
1,11, 16, 60, 68, 80, 82
80
27 (with hypertension)
80 (with atrial fibrillation)
60, 76
%
4.1
6.1
14.2
14.2
2.0
4.1
4.1
1, 12, 15, 24, 39, 45, 49,58, 30.6
61, 63, 64, 71, 72, 74, 78
1, 14, 18, 34, 45, 49, 63,
64, 78
1, 60
27?, 41
Uurik exposed
(71 examined)
Rongelap unexposed
(77 examined)
18.4
4.1
4.1
Subject Nos.
%o
Subject Nos.
835, 843, 865
3.9
2254
884.1515
2.6
2114, 2139, 2140.
856,859, 878.889,
908, 915, 929,
947,961,975
844, 916
858,948
13.0
2161,
2212,
2224
2110, 2169,
2244,
2.6
2.6
2200
858, 859, 917, 947,
948
823, 829, 832,846, 18.1
867, 914, 916,
932, 938, 956,
959, 1001, 1505,
1520
852
1.3
7.8
858, 878, 884
852, 855, 898,915,
918, 956, 1041,
"G
1+
11.3
2200,
2221,
2211,
2258
7.1
1.4
2139, 2149, 2162,
2194, 2208,
2246
8.5
2109, 2169
2128, 2140, 2158,
2169, 2193,
2194, 2200,
2208, 2215,
2216, 2221,
2252, 2258
2.8
18.3
127
3.9
10.4
1042
Epilepsy
Hernia
Hypertension (>140/90)
1, 4, 11, 58, 60, 77
Leprosy, arrested
Obesity
77
1, 49, 60, 61, 64, 67, 71,
74, 78
Osteoarthritis
50, 79
Primary fibrous dysplasia 34, 58, 63, 64, 78
Prostatic hypertrophy
Proteinuria (> 100 mg)
Rheumatic heart disease
Rheumatoid arthritis
Spermatocele
Syphilis(?), arrested
Tumorbenign
(except thyroid)
Tumor malignant
68, 82
12.2
2.0
18.4
4.1
10.2
4.1
76
68
4
11,59
11 (knee)
14 (epidermoidcyst)
63 (giant tumor, finger)
70 (neurofibroma, neck)
2.0
2.0
2.0
4.1
8.2
U.RLL
24, 39, 40, 74
13 (uterus)
2.0
Varicocele
40,41, 76
6.1
875
948, 1517
856, 859, 885,898,
899, 908, 947,
948, 982
1.3
2.6
11.7
849,815, 859,880,
881, 898, 934,
942, 943, 951,
959, 970, 982,
1005, 1050
858, 859, 878, 884,
896, 898, 915,
922, 928, 935,
947, 961
19.4
2107, 2128,
2189,
2196,
2224,
15.6
2161, 2169
28
2211
14
2140 (r. ankle)
2208 (nose, abdomen)
2212 (forearm)
2252 (chest)
do
915
855, 1526
1.3
2.6
846, 859, 864, 880
5.2
918,948
2.6
8.2
2158,
2195,
2215,
2246