+U
=.
>
Table 27
Table 2+
Ae
Protein Bound Iodine, Total [odine,
and Butanol Extractable Iodine in Marshallese Sera, 1959
Marshallese
ug ‘c lodine
Subject
No.
ABO Frequency Among Marshallese and Polynesians
«
PBI
‘
Exposed
-
io
a
26
39
4+
Mean
Total
BEI
-
_
>
6.2
>
9.7
—
—
~~
4.9
8.7
6.7
—
3.4
6.7
3.5
49
O
A
818
oT
9.2
830
6.0
—
60.7
32.2
39.1
211
QO
B
.
,
Gene frequency
r.
br
Fe
7.5
_
Simmons
19.7
=
13.1
43
AB
Unexposed
Present
Simmons and
report
et al.-*
Graydon”?
(310 persons) (678 persons) (138 persons}
Percent
on
Polynesian
21.4
53
0.768
0.723
103
34
128
v
44
0
0.626
135
Table
_
4.9
3.9
3.2
-
+i
4.0
MN and Kell-Diego Frequency Among
Marshallese and Polynesians
>
—
33
Marshallese
813
Mean
5.0
6.3
Present
Table 25
report
Subjects From Rongelap With Glucosuria
Subject
No. Sex
853
854
893
956
991
M
blood
sugar,
Weight,
Age mg/100 ml
Ib
54
200
41
312
F
54
F
F
50
51
F
172
103
278.
176
130
134
184
5
155
4
MN
Height, blood
cm
group
72
_-
Percent
ABO
150
™
&
°
OY
4.8
Fasting
-
¢-
6.7
6.2
374
28
869
B74
887
able
0)
863
=
i
60.9
;
Gene frequency
m
oO
n
O
Others
B
Oo
A
et al.*8
10
22
N
Simmons
19
70
a
0.194
0.220
0.806
Kell (K)
Diego (Di*}
0.780
0
0
Polynesia
-
Simmons
2
jf
iy
?
i
and Graydon”®
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 Marshall Islands District
of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (1956 and 1957 Data Combined)*
USS.
Marshall Islands
Population
Total deaths
337,552,000
3,197,604
27,215
160
Deaths
§ perd 000
5
5.9
Diabetes deaths
Diabetes deaths
per 100,000
population
Diabetes deaths
per 1000 deaths
53,364
15.8
16.7
10
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 US. are from reference 27 and for the Marshall Islands
from Dr. H.E. Macdonald (see text).
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