Table 24

Table 27

Protein Bound Iodine, Total Iodine,
and Butanol Extractable Iodine in Marshallese Sera, 1959

ABO Frequency Among Marshallese and Polynesians

Subject

No.

PBI

Total

BEI

Present

report

10
19
se

7.0
4.1
o2

9.0
2.0
_

70
as

44

6.7

_—

3.4

3

49

'

Mean

6

9

818

9.2

863
nee
987
B15

-M

~

Unexposed

O
A
B

853

M

854
893
956
991

F
F
F
F

Graydon*®

Gene frequency

r.
pe
4.

3.3

0.768
128
103

39.1
60.9
0
0

0.723.
135
134

0.626
374
0

6.7
25
62

~
_

4.9
to
5.0

MN and Kell-Diego Frequency Among
Marshallese and Polynesians

9.3

~~

3.3

Marshallese

4.8

Present
report
Percent
M

Cee

ABO

sugar,

Weight, Height, blood

Age mg/100 mi
54
41
50
51

52.2
21.4
21.1

4.5

Table 25

54

Simmons and

7.5

F
Sex

60.7
19.7
15.1

AB

_
r
.
Subjects From Rongelap With Glucosuria

No.

et al.”*

—

6.3

ean

Percent

,

.

Simmons

Polynesian

(310 persons) (678 persons) (138 persons)

Exposed

Subject

Marshallese

ug % Iodine

200

172
312
103
278 ©

MN

cm

group

176

i560

=O

130
—_
151
155

19

70

Gene frequency
m

n

B
O
O
A

10

22

N

Ib

72
—
134
184

8

71

0.194

0.806

Others
Kell (K)
Diego (Di*)

Simmons
et al.**

0.220

0.780

0
0

Polynesian’
Simmons
and Gravdon**
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 MarshallIslands District
of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (1956 and 1957 Data Combined)*

Population

US.

Marshall Islands

Total deaths

337,552,000

27,215

3,197,604
160

Deaths

Diabetes deaths

per 1000

Diabetes deaths

9.5

53,364

5.9

10

per 100,000
population

15.8

Diabetes deaths

per 1000 deaths

16.7

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 U.S. are from reference 27 and for the Marshall Islands
from Dr. H.E. Macdonald (see text).

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