Factors associated with the definitive onset of a disease, illness, accident, behavioral response, or course of action. Usually one factor is more important or more obviously recognizable than others, if several are involved, and one may often be regarded as necessary. Examples include exposure to specific disease; amount or level of an infectious organism, drug, or noxious agent, etc.

Annotation

IM general only; coordinate NIM with disease, accident, or behavioral response

DUI

D015985 MeSH Browser

CUI

M0024435

Previous indexing

Risk (1966-1989); specific disease/epidemiology (1966-1989); specific disease/etiology (1966-1989)

History note

90

Public note

90