Additional Readings. Disorders of Muscle Tissue Muscular Muscle disorders are caused by disruption of normal innervation, degeneration and replacement of muscle cells, injury, lack of use or disease. Atrophy Muscular atrophy refers to a decrease in size of muscles.
Of the 1,108,229 people living in Hawaii, 23 percent describe themselves as white, 22 percent as Japanese, 20 percent as part Hawaiian, 11 percent as Filipino, four percent as Chinese, two percent as black, and about one percent each as Korean and pure Hawaiian.
1 The leading causes of death among this group are cancer, heart disease, accidents, stroke, and diabetes.  The infant mortality rate for Native Hawaiians is 9.6 per 1000 live births, which is 1.7 times greater than non-Hispanic whites.