Sufficient causes

Sufficient causes

A sufficient cause is a complete casual mechanism. It can be defined as a set of events that inevitably produce disease. This can be depicted by disease causal chain. In disease etiology, the completion of a sufficient cause may be considered equivalent to the onset of disease. For biological effects, most and sometimes all of the components of a sufficient cause are unknown.

See also, Component causes of the disease

[http://www.ajph.org/cgi/reprint/95/S1/S144 Rothman and Greenland]


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