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.
The population of native Hawaiians has diminished considerably since Western contact, usually dated from the arrival of the English seaman Captain Cook in 1778. From an estimated 300,000 that year, the population fell to 71,019 in 1853.