Urinary iodine concentration during pregnancy in an area of unstable dietary iodine intake in Switzerland.

We prospectively investigated urinary iodine concentration (UIC) in pregnant women and in female, non-pregnant controls in the canton of Berne, Switzerland, in 1992. Mean UIC of pregnant women [205 +/- 151 microg iodine/g creatinine (microg l/g Cr); no. = 153] steadily decreased from the first (236 +/- 180 microg l/g Cr; no.

[The Viennese physician Ludwig Teleky (1872-1957) and his "History of factory and mine hygiene" (author's transl)].

This article has the intention to show the merits of the Viennese physician Ludwig Teleky (1872-1957). A short introduction characterizes Teleky in the words of Prof. Dr.