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The study participants included 1700 children and adolescents with short stature who were recruited at the Affiliated Hospital of Jining Medical University in China between March 2013 and April 2021. A positive association between SUA levels and the TyG index was detected by univariate analysis (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009&lt;\u20090.001). Furthermore, a nonlinear relationship was detected between SUA and the TyG index, whose point was 6.55\u00a0mg\/dL. There was a positive association between SUA and the TyG index when the SUA level was greater than 6.55\u00a0mg\/dL (\u03b2 0.17, 95% CI: 0.07, 0.27; <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009&lt;\u20090.001). However, we did not observe a significant relationship between SUA and the TyG index when the SUA level was less than 6.55\u00a0mg\/dL (\u03b2 0.02, 95% CI: \u2212\u20090.01, 0.05; <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.091). 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