+U

=.

>

Table 27

Table 2+

Ae

Protein Bound Iodine, Total [odine,

and Butanol Extractable Iodine in Marshallese Sera, 1959

Marshallese

ug ‘c lodine

Subject
No.

ABO Frequency Among Marshallese and Polynesians

«

PBI

‘

Exposed

-

io

a

26
39
4+

Mean

Total

BEI

-

_

>

6.2
>
9.7

—
—

~~
4.9
8.7

6.7

—

3.4

6.7

3.5

49

O
A

818

oT

9.2

830

6.0

—

60.7

32.2

39.1

211

QO

B
.

,

Gene frequency
r.
br
Fe

7.5

_

Simmons

19.7
=
13.1
43

AB

Unexposed

Present

Simmons and

report
et al.-*
Graydon”?
(310 persons) (678 persons) (138 persons}
Percent

on

Polynesian

21.4
53

0.768

0.723

103

34

128

v

44

0

0.626

135

Table

_

4.9

3.9
3.2

-

+i
4.0

MN and Kell-Diego Frequency Among
Marshallese and Polynesians

>

—

33

Marshallese

813
Mean

5.0

6.3

Present

Table 25

report

Subjects From Rongelap With Glucosuria

Subject
No. Sex

853

854

893

956
991

M

blood

sugar,
Weight,
Age mg/100 ml
Ib

54

200

41

312

F

54

F
F

50
51

F

172

103
278.

176

130

134
184

5
155

4

MN

Height, blood
cm
group

72

_-

Percent

ABO

150

™
&

°

OY

4.8

Fasting

-

¢-

6.7
6.2

374

28

869
B74

887

able

0)

863

=

i

60.9

;
Gene frequency
m

oO

n

O

Others

B

Oo
A

et al.*8

10

22

N

Simmons

19

70

a

0.194

0.220

0.806

Kell (K)
Diego (Di*}

0.780

0
0

Polynesia
-

Simmons

2
jf

iy
?
i

and Graydon”®
196
47.8

32.6

- 0.435

0.565

0
0

¢

Table 26
Deaths Reported as Due to Diabetes in the U.S. and in the Marshall Islands District

of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (1956 and 1957 Data Combined)*

USS.

Marshall Islands

Population

Total deaths

337,552,000

3,197,604

27,215

160

Deaths
§ perd 000

5

5.9

Diabetes deaths

Diabetes deaths
per 100,000
population

Diabetes deaths
per 1000 deaths

53,364

15.8

16.7

10

36.7

62.5

0.01 >p>>0.001

p>0.001

*The popualtions, total deaths, and diabetes deaths for 1956 and 1957 were totaled to get the average deaths per 1000
and diabetes deaths per 100,000 for these two years. Data for the US. are from reference 27 and for the Marshall Islands
from Dr. H.E. Macdonald (see text).

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