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).