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why the need for a 24 hour urine specimen
Submitted: 323 days and 7 hours ago.
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Age: 75; Female, Florida
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A 24 hour urine specimen is sometimes required for testing purposes because doctors want to know how much urine is a person producing in a day or how much of a particular substance (for example, protein, aldosterone, sodium, potassium, or urea nitrogen) is eliminated in a day. A single specimen urinalysis cannot provide this information, so patients are instructed to collect all their urine produced in a 24 hour period.
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