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The comparative effect of exposure to various risk factors on the risk of hyperuricaemia: diet has a weak causal effect
4 Mar 2021
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Abstract Background Prevention of hyperuricaemia (HU) is critical to the prevention of gout. Understanding causal relationships and relative contributions of various risk factors to hyperuricemia is therefore important in the prevention of gout. Here, we use attributable fraction to compare the relative contribution of genetic, dietary, urate-lowering therapy (ULT) and other exposures to HU. We use Mendelian...
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