Table 2
Major Diagnoses
Unexposed
Diagnosis
Essential hypertension*
Arteriosclerotic heart disease
Cerebral arteriosclerosis
Bronchiectasis
Emphysema
Cancer
Tertiary syphilis
Utirik
Rongelap
No. cases Percent
No. cases Percent
No. cases Percent
ti
3
1
i
Primary yaws
Pulmonary tuberculosis
G.I. parasites
Congenital abnormalities (all types)
Asthma
Osteoarthritis
Rheumatic heart disease
Total examined
Exposed
Rongelap
1
3
l
!
13
2
6
1
10
2**
1
9
2
4
l
7
2
t
1
13
4
8
1
9
3
fe)
1
I
l
8
8
7
7
95
144
1
7
1
7
3
1
1
t
1
l
10
1}
3
)
2
2
93
*Defined as systolic 140 mm Hgordiastolic 100 mm Hg.
**Orbital tumor, type unknown; basal cell skin carcinoma.
Table 3
Congenital Abnormalities
Diagnosis
Umbilical hernia
Shortening 5th finger
Shortening 3th metacarpal
Absence carpal bones
Polydactylism
No. in
radiated
group
1
3
\
No. in
control
group
i
No. in
Utirik
group
P
I
1
sented for the irradiated Rongelap children and
the unirradiated Marshallese children. (The
Uuirik children are included in the unirradiated
group.) Table 4 shows the mean height and
weight for the exposed and unexposed children of
different ages. The mean values for the weight
and height, for the most part, wereslightly lower
in the exposed children, male and female, from
about 4 through about 10 years of age. The numbers of children are too small for satisfactory
statistical analysis. Recently a carefully standardized series of studies of the left wrist (which has
I
t
been found to be a reliable index of skeletal age)
.
.
.
in children of various ages has been published.’
All x-rays of the wrists of the Marshallese children
were compared to this standard,* which was ob-
Cacathvrecdi)
Congenital nystagmus
'
i
of Northern European extraction. In Figure 4 the
bone ages of the Marshallese are compared with
Absence testicle
i
be noted in skeletal maturationin the irradiated
Hexion deformity finger
ongenital deformity leg
Anomaly feet
Palatal anomaly
Tongue ued
Asymmetry offace
Pigmentation cornea
Adrenogenital syndrome
Congenital heart disease
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tained from studies of white American children
the published standards. General retardation may
*Weare indebted to Dr. Leo Lusted of the National Insututes
of Health for analyzing the x-rays for bone development.