Lower serum uric acid levels are associated with depressive symptoms in a Japanese general population: A population-based cross-sectional study

• Daiki Takekawa ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: takekawa@hirosaki-u.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4005-9536

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• Hirotaka Kinoshita,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4490-3941

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• Yoshikazu Nikaido ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yoshikazu Nikaido, Takashi Kudo

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan, Department of Metabolomics Innovation, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7912-6228

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• Takashi Kudo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yoshikazu Nikaido, Takashi Kudo

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan

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• Tatsuya Mikami,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Innovation Center for Health Promotion, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6657-6446

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• Kazuyoshi Hirota

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan, Department of Anesthesiology, Aomori Prefectural Central Hospital, Aomori, Japan

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