Associations of the metabolic score for insulin resistance and uric acid with prevalent thyroid nodules: A cross-sectional study with systolic blood pressure mediation analysis and C-TIRADS category-specific analyses

• Jiahui Ding ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jiahui Ding, Xiaojin Hu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Nursing College, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China

  Affiliation Nursing College, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0000-2376-2989

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• Xiaojin Hu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jiahui Ding, Xiaojin Hu

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Health Management Center, The First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China

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• Meiling Sun,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Nursing College, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China

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• Shanshan Ge

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources

  * E-mail: superficiad@gmail.com

  Affiliation Health Management Center, The First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0007-4595-5395

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