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Abstract
The relating of causes to the effects they produce. Causes are termed necessary when they must always precede an effect and sufficient when they initiate or produce an effect. Any of several factors may be associated with the potential disease causation or outcome, including predisposing factors, enabling factors, precipitating factors, reinforcing factors, and risk factors.
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- Causalities
- Causation
- Enabling Factors
- Multifactorial Causality
- Multiple Causation
- Predisposing Factors
- Reinforcing Factors
- Causalities, Multifactorial
- Causality, Multifactorial
- Causation, Multiple
- Causations
- Causations, Multiple
- Enabling Factor
- Factor, Enabling
- Factor, Predisposing
- Factor, Reinforcing
- Factors, Enabling
- Factors, Predisposing
- Factors, Reinforcing
- Multifactorial Causalities
- Multiple Causations
- Predisposing Factor
- Reinforcing Factor
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an epidemiological concept: do not confuse with the cause of a disease ( = /etiol); IM general only; coordinate NIM with disease /epidemiol, not /etiol
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- Risk (1966-1989)
- specific disease/epidemiology (1966-1989)
- specific disease/etiology (1966-1989)
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- National Library of Medicine. Causality. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D015984. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D015984
- Causality. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causality
- Causality. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q179289