The phrase "a cause of poor" is not complete and lacks clarity in written English.
It can be used when discussing factors that contribute to poor outcomes, but it needs to be followed by a noun to specify what is poor.
Example: "Lack of resources is a cause of poor performance in the project."
Alternatives: "a factor leading to poor" or "a reason for poor".
But that's just a correlation — it doesn't explain why people get worse sleep in those areas, or whether poverty and bad health are a cause of poor sleep, an effect of it or related to something else entirely.
Our study does not yet clarify whether the changes to the gut bacteria are a cause of poor ageing itself or are just a consequence of frailty – longitudinal studies that follow people over several years will be needed to sort this out.
Although spine surgery has been alleged to be a cause of poor outcomes, such outcomes may be improved by appropriate postsurgical rehabilitation.
To address this, we conduct two studies to investigate whether item wording and content might be a cause of poor LMX convergence.
Inter-subject variability in morphometry has been shown to be a cause of poor dosage control in pulmonary drug delivery systems.
The association between reading motivation and reading performance among poor readers in previous research (e.g., Lepola et al. [2000]) may reflect the possibility that low reading motivation is a consequence rather than a cause of poor reading performance.
Consequently, higher risk drinking may be a result as well as a cause of poorer LS [ 58].
He ignores the fact that having too little money is not just a definition of poverty; it is also a cause of staying poor".
It was hypothesised that the "urea" moiety may be a cause of the poor solubility, possibly through its ability to cause antiparallel hydrogen bonded dimers.
Others have been unable to link increased mortality to vancomycin-resistance, demonstrating that vancomycin resistance is more of a marker of severe disease than a direct cause of poor outcome [ 8- 11].
It is usually caused by a vasospasm [7], which, although preventable, remains a major cause of poor neurological outcome and increased mortality in the course of SAH [4 6].
