 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
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
N05.715.350.200 N06.850.490.625
|
| 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
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Causality".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Causality".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Causality" by people in this website by year, and whether "Causality" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2001 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2004 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 2005 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2006 | 0 | 4 | 4 | | 2007 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2008 | 0 | 4 | 4 | | 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2011 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 2012 | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 2013 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 2014 | 0 | 5 | 5 | | 2015 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2016 | 0 | 6 | 6 | | 2017 | 0 | 4 | 4 | | 2018 | 1 | 4 | 5 | | 2019 | 1 | 4 | 5 | | 2020 | 0 | 7 | 7 | | 2021 | 1 | 7 | 8 | | 2022 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2023 | 0 | 6 | 6 | | 2024 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2025 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
To return to the timeline, click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Causality" by people in Profiles.
-
Siegel K, Dee LE. Foundations and Future Directions for Causal Inference in Ecological Research. Ecol Lett. 2025 Jan; 28(1):e70053.
-
Byrnes JEK, Dee LE. Causal Inference With Observational Data and Unobserved Confounding Variables. Ecol Lett. 2025 Jan; 28(1):e70023.
-
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.
-
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 Mar; 73(3):697-706.
-
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, B?rnighausen 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 Apr 19; 24(1):91.
-
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 Sj?gren's Disease and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. Int J Mol Sci. 2023 Sep 22; 24(19).
-
Pividori M, Lu S, Li B, Su C, Johnson ME, Wei WQ, Feng Q, Namjou B, Kiryluk K, Kullo IJ, Luo Y, Sullivan BD, Voight BF, Skarke C, Ritchie MD, Grant SFA, Greene CS. Projecting genetic associations through gene expression patterns highlights disease etiology and drug mechanisms. Nat Commun. 2023 09 09; 14(1):5562.
-
Gao D, Hu J, Bradley CJ, Yang F. Instrumental variable analysis for cost outcome: Application to the effect of primary care visit on medical cost among low-income adults. Stat Med. 2023 10 30; 42(24):4349-4376.
-
Dee LE, Ferraro PJ, Severen CN, Kimmel KA, Borer ET, Byrnes JEK, Clark AT, Hautier Y, Hector A, Raynaud X, Reich PB, Wright AJ, Arnillas CA, Davies KF, MacDougall A, Mori AS, Smith MD, Adler PB, Bakker JD, Brauman KA, Cowles J, Komatsu K, Knops JMH, McCulley RL, Moore JL, Morgan JW, Ohlert T, Power SA, Sullivan LL, Stevens C, Loreau M. Clarifying the effect of biodiversity on productivity in natural ecosystems with longitudinal data and methods for causal inference. Nat Commun. 2023 05 05; 14(1):2607.
-
Perraillon MC, Tina Shih YC. Causal Inference in Oncology Comparative Effectiveness Research Using Observational Data: Are Instrumental Variables Underutilized? J Clin Oncol. 2023 05 01; 41(13):2319-2322.
|
People  People who have written about this concept. _
Similar Concepts
People who have written about this concept.
_
Top Journals
Top journals in which articles about this concept have been published.
|