An unusually high incidence of salt-losing congenital adrenal hyperplasia in the Alaskan Eskimo.

Between the years 1959 and 1969, 14 cases of the salt-losing variety of congenital adrenal hyperplasia have been recognized in the Alaskan Eskimo. There appears to be an unusually high incidence of the syndrome, since there are only about 2,000 total Alaska native births annually, and only 700 Eskimo births in southwestern Alaska, where the children with congenital adrenal hyperplasia originate.