A member asked:

If someone has complete or close to complete renal failure. wouldn't the specific gravity in urinalysis be 1.000 or lower than normal consistently since the kidneys can't concentrate anything?

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Let's think: You're on the right track, but the specific gravity of the glomerular filtrate is 1.010 because of the abundance of ions and other substances. As the tubules fail (glomerular failure is a different matter), the specific gravity tends to settle around a constant 1.010.

Answered 2/21/2013

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