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.
Native Hawaiians. In the legal sense people of Native Hawaiian descent are not considered Native Americans in the way that American Indians are, but they are nonetheless indigenous peoples in the United States (their name for themselves is Kanaka Maoli).