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.
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES. Native Hawaiians, Samoans and Chamoru are indigenous peoples to the State of Hawaii, the U.S. Territory of American Samoa and the U.S. Territory of Guam respectively. 8 out of 10 Pacific Islanders in the U.S. are native to the United Statesiv.