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To determine causality, a Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis was performed to identify connections between the lipidome and pancreatic diseases.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Statistics from a genome-wide association study of the plasma lipidome, which included a diverse array of 179 lipid species, were obtained from the GeneRISK cohort study with 7,174 participants. Genetic associations with four types of pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer were sourced from the R11 release of the FinnGen consortium. Two pancreatitis datasets from UK Biobank were employed as the validation cohort. MR analysis was conducted to assess the relationship between the genetically predicted plasma lipidome and these pancreatic diseases. Inverse variance weighted was adopted as the main statistical method. Bayesian weighted MR was employed for further verification. The MR-Egger intercept test for pleiotropy and Cochrane's Q statistics test for heterogeneity were performed to ensure the robustness.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>MR analysis yielded significant evidence that 26, 25, 2, and 19 lipid species were correlated with diverse outcomes of pancreatitis, and 8 lipid species were correlated with pancreatic cancer. Notably, sterol ester (27:1\/20:2) levels (OR: 0.84, 95% CI: 0.78\u20130.90, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> = 5.79 \u00d7 10<jats:sup>\u22127<\/jats:sup>) were significantly associated with acute pancreatitis, and phosphatidylcholine (17:0_20:4) levels (OR: 0.89, 95% CI: 0.84\u20130.94, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> = 1.78 \u00d7 10<jats:sup>\u22124<\/jats:sup>) and sterol ester (27:1\/20:4) levels (OR: 0.90, 95% CI: 0.86\u20130.95, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> = 2.71 \u00d7 10<jats:sup>\u22124<\/jats:sup>) levels were significantly associated with chronic pancreatitis after the Bonferroni-corrected test. As for validation, 14 and 9 lipid species were correlated with acute and chronic pancreatitis of UK Biobank. 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