Table 3. Mortality Among Rongelap and Utirik People (as of 1980). (Possible causes comprise diseases noted in the medical records which might be etiologically related to death. AE = Ailinginae exposed. NC = not confirmed by biopsy or autopsy.) Year A. 1956 Subject No. & sex Age Possible causes Rongelap exposed 25 M 46 38 31 62 30 46 M M - AE F F M 1962 1963 1963 1964 56 52 57 43 F F F F - AE 75 55 107 77 1966 1966 29 M - AE 55 M 77 88 Asthma, heart failure Heart disease 1968 1971 1972 1972 59 50 54 60 58 51 19 74 Influenza-pneumonia Acute asphyxiation, cause unknown Acute myelogenous leukemia Heart disease 82 75 ? Liver disease ASHD ? ? ? Drowning ? CVA ? ? Pulmonary bronchiectasis, chronic bronchitis ? ? Asthmatic (?) 1962 1965 1966 1974 1977 1980 26 M 28 F - AE 13 F F - AE M - AE M F 68 M 58 F 82 M 78 35 60 60 84 Heart disease 1957 1958 1959 1962 1962 21 79 71 64 Heart disease, diabetes Acute varicella Ovarian cancer Cancer of cervix - NC Heart disease Accident Accident Poliomyelitis, bulbar "Old age" (2) Pneumonia, heart disease Heart disease Cancer of uterus - NC Cancer, stomach B. Utirik exposed 1956 1957 1957 1958 1959 1959 1959 1959 2118 2219 2222 2243 2122 2127 2170 2187 M F F M M M M F 24 57 63 50 87 73 46 61 1960 1960 1960 2116 F 2131 F 2180 M 27 35 76 -13-