40
Table 24
Table 27
Protein Bound Jodine, Total Iodine,
ABO Frequency Among Marshallese and Polynesians
and Butanol Extractable Iodine in Marshallese Sera, 1959
Marshallese
ug % Iodine
Subject
No.
PBI
Present
Simmons Simmons and
report
et al.™
Graydon™
(310 persons) (678 persons) (138 persons)
Total
BEI
9-0
2.0
2.0
2.7
Percent
8.7
3.4
AB
Exposed
70
4.1
19
26—C«s
6.2
39
44
M
=
O
60.7
52.2
B
15.1
21.1
A
19.7
—
—
—_
4.9
6.7
3.5
49
—
—
7.5
4.4
4.9
Table 28
4.5
Gene frequency
t.
Pe
U
0.768
.128
4.
39.1
21.4
9.7
6.7
Cnexposed
Polynesian
103
60.9
5.3
0
0.723
135
0.626
374
0
134
0
818
830
9.2
6.0
aoa
25
a
to
MNand Kell-Diego Frequency Among
5.3
7
3.3
Marshallese
863
6.7
887
~
62
B15
Mean
50
6.3
-
er
Marshallese and Polynesians
4.8
Present
Table 25
report
“
.
Percent
Subjects From Rongelap With Glucosuria
Fast .
hood.
Subject
No.
Sex
M 54
200
893
F
312
956
991
F
54
F
F
50
51
41
172
103
278
176
72
—
134
184
150
130
—
151
155
8
MN
ABO
O
B
Oo
0.806
Others
O
A
Kell (K)
Diego (Di*)
and Graydon”
19.6
47.8
71
0.194
n
et al.?*
.
Simmons
19
70
,
Genefrequency
m
Simmons
10
22
N
sugar,
Weight, Height, blood
Age mg/100 ml
Ib
cm
group
853
854
M
Polynesian
.
32.6
DOE ARCHIVES
:
0.220
0.435
0.780
0.965
0
0
0
0
Table 26
Deaths Reported as Due to Diabetes in the US. and in the Marshall Islands District
of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (1956 and 1957 Data Combined)*
Population
US.
Marshall Islands
337,552,000
27,215
Total deaths
3,197,604
160
Deaths
Diabetes deaths
per1000
Diabetes deaths
95
53,364
5.9
per 100,000
population
Diabetes deaths
per 1000 deaths
15.8
10
16.7
36.7
62.5
0.01>p>0.00!
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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