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Background
The occurrence of gout is closely related to metabolism, but there is still a lack of evidence on the causal role of metabolites in promoting or preventing gout.
Methods
We applied a two‐sample Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis to assess the association between 486 serum metabolites and gout using genome‐wide association study statistics. The inverse variance weighting method was...