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We analyzed 16 major IMIDs, which included systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), ulcerative colitis (UC), Crohn\u2019s disease (CD), ankylosing spondylitis (AS), sicca syndrome (SS), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), type 1 diabetes (T1D), primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), atopic dermatitis (AD), sarcoidosis, hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism, psoriasis, and childhood asthma. The random-effects inverse-variance weighted (IVW) method was performed as the main analytical approach in MR. Various sensitivity analyses, including MR-Egger, MR robust adjusted profile score (MR-RAPS), weighted median, MR pleiotropy residual sum and outlier (MR-PRESSO) methods, weighted mode, radial plot, and radial regression, were used to guarantee the robustness of the results and detect horizontal pleiotropy. Cochran\u2019s Q value was calculated to check for heterogeneity, and the MR Steiger approach was used to test the causal direction.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Results:<\/jats:bold> The MR results indicated significant inverse associations of LTL with risks of psoriasis (OR: 0.77, 95% CI: 0.66\u20130.89, and <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 3.66 \u00d7 10<jats:sup>\u22124<\/jats:sup>), SS (OR: 0.75, CI: 0.58\u20130.98, and <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.03), RA (OR: 0.77, 95% CI: 0.68\u20130.88, and <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 9.85 \u00d7 10<jats:sup>\u22125<\/jats:sup>), hypothyroidism (OR: 0.84, 95% CI: 0.78\u20130.91, and <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 7,08 \u00d7 10<jats:sup>\u22126<\/jats:sup>), hyperthyroidism (OR: 0.60, 95% CI: 0.44\u20130.83, and <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 1.90 \u00d7 10<jats:sup>\u22123<\/jats:sup>), sarcoidosis (OR: 0.67, 95% CI: 0.54\u20130.83, and <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 2.60 \u00d7 10<jats:sup>\u22124<\/jats:sup>), and IPF (OR: 0.41, 95% CI: 0.29\u20130.58, and <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 4.11 \u00d7 10<jats:sup>\u22127<\/jats:sup>) in the FinnGen study. We observed that longer LTL was associated with an increased risk of AS susceptibility (OR: 1.51, 95% CI: 1.18\u20131.94, and <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 9.66 \u00d7 10<jats:sup>\u22124<\/jats:sup>). The results of the IVW method showed no causal relationship between TL and SLE (OR: 0.92, 95% CI: 0.62\u20131.38, and <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.69) in the FinnGen study; however, a significantly positive correlation was shown between LTL and SLE in another larger GWAS (OR: 1.87, 95% CI: 1.37\u20132.54, and <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 8.01 \u00d7 10<jats:sup>\u22125<\/jats:sup>).<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Conclusion:<\/jats:bold> Our findings reveal that abnormal LTL has the potential to increase the risk of IMIDs. Therefore, it could be treated as a predictor and may provide new potential treatment targets for IMIDs. However, the change of LTL may not be the direct cause of IMIDs. 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