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However, the causality between them remains unclear. This study aimed to examine the causal effect of FI on MDs.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>We performed a bidirectional two\u2010sample Mendelian randomization (MR) study. A recent large\u2010scale genome\u2010wide association study (GWAS) provided available data associated with FI, and summary statistics on eight MDs were collected from the IEU OpenGWAS database. Inverse variance weighted (IVW) was used as the main analysis to estimate causal effects, together with MR pleiotropy residual sum and outlier (MR\u2010PRESSO), MR\u2010Egger, Cochran's Q test, pleiotropy test, leave\u2010one\u2010out method, and MR Steiger analysis were used in the sensitivity analyses.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Our MR study demonstrated for the first time that elevated FI was causally associated with an increased risk of MDs including obesity (odds ratio [OR]\u2009=\u20091.78; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.17\u20132.70; <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.0075), T2DM (OR\u2009=\u20091.67; 95% CI: 1.24\u20132.24; <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20096.95\u2009\u00d7\u200910<jats:sup>\u22124<\/jats:sup>), gout (OR\u2009=\u20092.45; 95% CI: 1.29\u20134.64; <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.006), hypothyroidism (OR\u2009=\u20091.96; 95% CI: 1.47\u20132.60; <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20093.47\u2009\u00d7\u200910<jats:sup>\u22126<\/jats:sup>), and HTN (OR\u2009=\u20092.17; 95% CI: 1.72\u20132.74; <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20095.25\u2009\u00d7\u200910<jats:sup>\u221211<\/jats:sup>). However, no causal association was found between FI and osteoporosis, vitamin D deficiency, and hyperthyroidism.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>Our findings support a causal relationship between FI and multiple MDs. 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