The phrase "a cause of early" is not correct and lacks clarity in written English.
It may be intended to refer to something that leads to an early occurrence or event, but it needs additional context to be meaningful.
Example: "The study identified a cause of early onset of the disease in certain populations."
Alternatives: "a factor contributing to early" or "a reason for early".
While each of these may cause preterm birth at any point in gestation, infection/inflammation predominates as a cause of early preterm birth 24-322 weeks gestation), and stress and uterine overdistension are associated mostly with late preterm birth 32-37 weekss). 32-37 weeks
Renal disease is seen in 15-18 % of all SCD patients, and is a cause of early death [ 8, 9].
This phenomenon has been described as a cause of early failure of HA-coated cups after primary THA (Morscher et al. 1998).
Social isolation is as potent a cause of early death as smoking 15 cigarettes a day; loneliness, research suggests, is twice as deadly as obesity.
In an article in The Lancet and at a news conference, the global health specialists -- many associated with Harvard medical institutions -- argued that cancer was overlooked as a cause of early death and years of misery in poor countries.
This study was designed to assess the effects of DBTCl on uterine function as a cause of early embryonic loss using pseudopregnant rats.
Nearly 10 years later, however, mutant APP genes and isolated trisomy APP genes were confirmed and identified as a cause of early-onset Alzheimer's disease, although only in a small number of familial cases of direct trisomy APP [ 34].
The leading cause of death, heart disease, has drastically declined as a cause of death since 1970, especially in men, and the life expectancy of Americans continues to climb.
Disruption of the ASPM gene was identified as a cause of microcephaly two years ago by Dr. Geoffrey Woods, a British pediatrician, and Dr. Christopher Walsh, a neurogeneticist at the Harvard Medical School.
Because dementia is not consistently recorded as a cause of death, last year's total of 49,349 lives lost to it "may even be an understatement", Pickett added.
More recently, additional anecdotal reports and meta-analyses have implicated all three agents, particularly etanercept, as a cause of uveitis [66 75].
