Meanings of causal pathways in English

Various causal pathways have been hypothesized as mechanisms underlying these associations.

Frequent infections contribute to childhood stunting in developing countries but the causal pathways are uncertain.

However, findings are not consistent, and there might exist different causal pathways for the development of eczema.

Shared causal pathways with other cardiovascular diseases may present novel opportunities for preventative and therapeutic strategies for AAA.

Alternatively, there may be a causal relationship that may be explained by one or more potential causal pathways.

Results will help identify high-risk women, clarify causal pathways, and hopefully contribute to the prevention of breast cancer.

In comparison with tobacco-related lung carcinogenesis, lung cancer in nonsmokers may involve important and etiologically distinct causal pathways.

It presents a method for a global assessment of a clinical problem for further study of possible causal pathways.

Issue addressed: Complex health promotion programs, which can have multilevels of implementation and multi-components with nonlinear causal pathways, present many evaluation challenges.

Microalbuminuria may be relevant to the causal pathways leading to the excess of cardiovascular mortality and possibly renal failure in UK South Asians.

Purpose: Interventions to improve school ethos can reduce substance use but "upstream" causal pathways relating to implementation and school-level changes are uncertain.

Atypical sensory processing and temporal binding appear to be intertwined with development of disengagement in ASD, but longitudinal studies are needed to unravel causal pathways.

This model revealed 5 direct causes and 83 causal pathways (of four steps or less) to PTS at 12 months of police service.

Causal pathways are likely to center on the influence that the quality of social relations has on neuroendocrine pathways.