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MSH: 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.,NCI: The principle that a relationship exists between a primary entity A, or cause, and the occurrence of a secondary entity B, or effect.,CSP: process of identifying the cause of a particular disease or disorder.,NCI: The judgment of relatedness between an adverse event and an activity or observation result. EXAMPLE(S): The observation result of "diabetes" is assessed to have caused the AE. The activity of administering a concomitant medication is assessed to have caused the AE. The activity of administering the study drug is assessed to have caused the AE.