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. by biopsy or autopsy.) Subject No. & sex Year A. AE = Ailinginae exposed. WC = not confirmed Age Possible causes 46 78 35 60 60 84 21 75 Heart disease Heart disease, diabetes Acute varicella Ovarian cancer Cancer of cervix - NC Heart disease Accident Accident 79 77 88 71 58 Heart disease Asthma, heart failure Heart disease Cancer of uterus ~ NC Inf luenza-pneumonia Rongelap exposed 1956 1957 1958 1959 1962 1962 1962 1962 25 M 38 M 31 M - AE 62 F 30 F SEM 26 M 56 F 1963 1963 1964 52 F 57 F 43 F - AE 55 107 77 1971 1972 50 M - AE 54 M 51 19 Acute asphyxiation, cause unknown Acute myelogenous leukemia 1972 60 F 74 Heart disease 1977 58 F 82 ? Liver disease 1965 1966 1966 1966 1968 1974 1980 28 29 55 13 59 F - AE M - AE M F F - AE 68 M 64 82 M 75 Poliomyelitis, bulbar "Old age" (7) Pneumonia, heart disease Cancer, stomach ASHD B. Utirik exposed 1956 1957 2118 M 2219 F 24 57 ? ? 1958 1959 1959 1959 1959 2243 2122 2127 2170 2187 50 87 73 46 61 Drowning 2? CVA ? ? Pulmonary bronchiectasis, chronic 1957 1960 1960 1960 2222 F M M M M F 2116 F 2131 F 2180 M 63 27 35 76 * ? tronchitis ? ? Asthmatic (7?) -~ 13<- -