40
Table 24
Table 27
Protein Bound Iodine, Total Iodine,
and Butanol Extractable Iodine in Marshallese Sera, 1959
ABO Frequency Among Marshallese and Polynesians
Marshallese
ug % Iodine
Present
Simmons Simmons and
report
et al.**
Graydon*®
(310 persons) (678 persons) (138 persons)
Total
BEI
7.0
4.1
6.2
2.0
2.0
—
—
—
2.0
2.7
4.9
8.?
3.4
Percent
O
A
B
6.7
3.5
4.9
Gene frequency
Exposed
10
19
26
39
44
97
6.7
Mean
AB
Unexposed
818
830
9.2
6.0
oo
987
25
69
815
863
———_
45
7.5
4.4
0.768
0.723
Ge
.103
.134
.128
M
MNand Kell-Diego Frequency Among
Marshallese and Polynesians
23
3.3
Marshallese
6.3
4.8
854
893
956
991
F
F
F
F
Weight,
200
176
54
41
50
51
172
312
103
278
ib
72
~
134
184
Present
report
Percent
M
MN
N
Height, blood
cm
group
150
O
130
_
151
155
374
ae
ABO
sugar,
Age mg/1i00 ml
54
0
ie
5.0
bhooat
853
0.626
135
i
Fast :
Sex
0
Table 28
.
:
Subjects From Rongelap With Glucosuria
No.
39.1
60.9
0
4.9
Table 25
Subject
53
r.
p-
—
—
52.2
21.4
21.1
—
6.7
Mean
60.7
19.7
15.1
pow
PBI
B
O
O
A
Simmons
and Graydon’®
g
10
19.6
22
19
47.8
70
71
Genefrequency
m
0.194
Others
Kell (K)
Diego {Di*)
0
0
n
Simmons
et al.°®
Polynesian
0.806
0.220
0.780
32.6
0.435
0.565
Po
Subject
No.
Polynesian
0
0
Table 26
Deaths Reported as Due to Diabetes in the U.S. and in the Marshail Islands District
US.
Marshall Islands
Population
Total deaths
Deaths
per 1000
337,552,000
27,215
3,197,604
160
9.5
5.9
Diabetes deaths
Diabetes deaths
per 100,000
population
Diabetes deaths
per 1000 deaths
53,364
10
15.8
36.7
16.7
62.5
0.01 >p>0.001
p>0.001
*The popualtions, total deaths, and diabetes deaths for 1956 and 1957 weretotaled 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).
mma
of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (1956 and 1957 Data Combined)*