 Causality
"Causality" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
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.
| Descriptor ID |
D015984
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N05.715.350.200 N06.850.490.625
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| Concept/Terms |
Multifactorial Causality- Multifactorial Causality
- Causalities, Multifactorial
- Causality, Multifactorial
- Multifactorial Causalities
Multiple Causation- Multiple Causation
- Causation, Multiple
- Causations, Multiple
- Multiple Causations
Reinforcing Factors- Reinforcing Factors
- Factor, Reinforcing
- Factors, Reinforcing
- Reinforcing Factor
Enabling Factors- Enabling Factors
- Enabling Factor
- Factor, Enabling
- Factors, Enabling
Predisposing Factors- Predisposing Factors
- Factor, Predisposing
- Factors, Predisposing
- Predisposing Factor
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Causality" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Causality" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Causality" by people in Profiles.
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Jena AB, Prasad V. Falsification end points for observational studies--reply. JAMA. 2013 May 1; 309(17):1770-1.
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Wang VJ, Cavagnaro CS, Clark S, Camargo CA, Mansbach JM. Altitude and environmental climate effects on bronchiolitis severity among children presenting to the emergency department. J Environ Health. 2012 Oct; 75(3):8-15; quiz 54.
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Howards PP, Schisterman EF, Poole C, Kaufman JS, Weinberg CR. "Toward a clearer definition of confounding" revisited with directed acyclic graphs. Am J Epidemiol. 2012 Sep 15; 176(6):506-11.
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Bhattacharyya N. Trends in the use of smokeless tobacco in United States, 2000-2010. Laryngoscope. 2012 Oct; 122(10):2175-8.
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Mansournia MA, Danaei G, Forouzanfar MH, Mahmoodi M, Jamali M, Mansournia N, Mohammad K. Effect of physical activity on functional performance and knee pain in patients with osteoarthritis : analysis with marginal structural models. Epidemiology. 2012 Jul; 23(4):631-40.
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Tchetgen Tchetgen EJ, Glymour MM, Weuve J, Robins J. Specifying the correlation structure in inverse-probability- weighting estimation for repeated measures. Epidemiology. 2012 Jul; 23(4):644-6.
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Erbay SH, Brewer E, French R, Midle JB, Zou KH, Lee GM, Erbay KD, Bhadelia RA. T2 hyperintensity of medial lemniscus is an indicator of small-vessel disease. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2012 Jul; 199(1):163-8.
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VanderWeele TJ, Hernán MA. Results on differential and dependent measurement error of the exposure and the outcome using signed directed acyclic graphs. Am J Epidemiol. 2012 Jun 15; 175(12):1303-10.
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Ogburn EL, VanderWeele TJ. On the nondifferential misclassification of a binary confounder. Epidemiology. 2012 May; 23(3):433-9.
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Campigotto F, Neuberg D, Zwicker JI. Accounting for death as a competing risk in cancer-associated thrombosis studies. Thromb Res. 2012 Apr; 129 Suppl 1:S85-7.
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