 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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| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2001 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2004 | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 2005 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2006 | 0 | 5 | 5 | | 2007 | 0 | 4 | 4 | | 2008 | 0 | 4 | 4 | | 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2010 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 2011 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2012 | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 2013 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 2014 | 0 | 7 | 7 | | 2015 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2016 | 1 | 6 | 7 | | 2017 | 0 | 4 | 4 | | 2018 | 1 | 6 | 7 | | 2019 | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 2020 | 0 | 5 | 5 | | 2021 | 1 | 6 | 7 | | 2022 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2023 | 0 | 8 | 8 | | 2024 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2025 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 2026 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Causality" by people in Profiles.
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Correia HE, Dee LE, Byrnes JEK, Fieberg JR, Fortin MJ, Glymour C, Runge J, Shipley B, Shpitser I, Siegel KJ, Sugihara G, von Holle B, Ferraro PJ. Best practices for moving from correlation to causation in ecological research. Nat Commun. 2026 Feb 23; 17(1).
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Barnatchez K, Nethery R, Shepherd BE, Parmigiani G, Josey KP. Flexible and efficient estimation of causal effects with error-prone exposures: a control variates approach for measurement error. Biometrics. 2025 Oct 08; 81(4).
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Correia HE, Dee LE, Ferraro PJ. Designing causal mediation analyses to quantify intermediary processes in ecology. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc. 2025 08; 100(4):1512-1533.
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Siegel K, Dee LE. Foundations and Future Directions for Causal Inference in Ecological Research. Ecol Lett. 2025 Jan; 28(1):e70053.
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Byrnes JEK, Dee LE. Causal Inference With Observational Data and Unobserved Confounding Variables. Ecol Lett. 2025 Jan; 28(1):e70023.
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Van Cleemput E, Adler PB, Suding KN, Rebelo AJ, Poulter B, Dee LE. Scaling-up ecological understanding with remote sensing and causal inference. Trends Ecol Evol. 2025 Feb; 40(2):122-135.
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Li X, Bayliss EA, Brookhart MA, Maciejewski ML. Assessing causality in deprescribing studies: A focus on adverse drug events and adverse drug withdrawal events. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2025 03; 73(3):697-706.
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Hufstedler H, Mauer N, Yeboah E, Carr S, Rahman S, Danzer AM, Debray TPA, de Jong VMT, Campbell H, Gustafson P, Maxwell L, Jaenisch T, Matthay EC, Bärnighausen T. Application of causal inference methods in individual-participant data meta-analyses in medicine: addressing data handling and reporting gaps with new proposed reporting guidelines. BMC Med Res Methodol. 2024 04 19; 24(1):91.
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Lugogo NL, Mohan A, Akuthota P, Couillard S, Rhoads S, Wechsler ME. Are We Ready for Asthma Remission as a Clinical Outcome? Chest. 2023 10; 164(4):831-834.
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Chau K, Raksadawan Y, Allison K, Ice JA, Scofield RH, Chepelev I, Harley ITW. Pervasive Sharing of Causal Genetic Risk Factors Contributes to Clinical and Molecular Overlap between Sjögren's Disease and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. Int J Mol Sci. 2023 Sep 22; 24(19).
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