In the western State of Mexico, half of the hospital admissions for chronic kidney diseases (CKD) not associated with diabetes mellitus or hypertension correspond to subjects less than 40 years of age. Therefore, this CKD is considered of unknown causes (CKDu). In this paper we studied whether there was an association between the presence of metals and risk factors with this CKDu. We performed a transversal analytical
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