No Evidence for a Causal Link between Serum Uric Acid and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease from the Dongfeng-Tongji Cohort Study.

SUA was positively associated with NAFLD incidence especially in female and normal-weight individuals and the suspected progression risk of newly developed NAFLD. However, the Mendelian randomization analyses lend no causal evidence, suggesting high SUA as a marker and not a cause of NAFLD.