40 Table 24 Table 27 Protein Bound Iodine, Total Iodine, and Butano! Extractable Iodine in Marshallese Sera, 1959 ABO Frequency Among Marshallese and Polynesians Marshallese pg % Iodine Subject No. PBI Total BEI 2-0 2.0 9.0 2.7 Present report 70, 4.1 26 39 44 Mean 6.2 | 9.7 6.7 — — — 4.9 8.7 3.4 6.7 35 49 — 7.9 Unexposed TO Simmons Simmons and et al.?* Graydon” (310 persons) (678 persons) (138 persons) Exposed re 19 Polynesian Percent O 60.7 52.2 39.1 B 15.1 21.1 0 A 19.7 AB 21.4 45 Gene frequency tr. Pe qe 60.9 5.3 0.768 128 .103 0 0.723 135 A34 0.626 374 0 818 9.2 863 6.7 — 4.9 o 3 _ te MNandKell-Diego Frequency Among 93 7 3.3 Marshallese 887 62 Bl Mean 50 6.3 Marshallese and Polynesians 4.8 Present report Table 25 . . . Subjects From Rongelap With Glucosuria Fast ‘ Subject No. M 956 F 854 893 991 blood? ABO sugar, Weight, Height, blood Sex Age mg/l00ml 853 54 group 200 176 150 O 103 134 172 312 F 51 278 72 — 130 — 184 155 151 Genefrequency m Kell (K) A 71 0.194 0.806 Others O 19 70 n B O 10 22 N cm 54 41 8 MN Ib F F 50 Percent M Diego (Di*) ; Simmons et a].?* 0.220 0.780 0 Polynesian , Simmons and Graydon** 19.6 47.8 32.6 0.435 0.565 0 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)* Population US. Marshall Islands Total deaths 337,552,000 27,215 3,197,604 160 Deaths per1000 Diabetes deaths 9.5 53,364 5.9 10 Diabetes deaths per 100,000 population 15.8 Diabetes deaths per 1000 deaths 16.7 36.7 62.5 0.01 >>p>>0.001 p>>90.001 *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 ar ‘ from Dr. H.E. Macdonald(see text).