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).