The phrase "a particular cause for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a specific reason or factor that leads to a certain outcome or situation.
Example: "The researchers identified a particular cause for the increase in pollution levels in the city."
Alternatives: "a specific reason for" or "a distinct factor for".
Urinary trouble that persists despite treatment is a particular cause for concern, she said.
The figures for the NHS and for chairs of public boards are a particular cause for concern.
To free-speech advocates in Pakistan, the government's seeming insouciance about censorship is a particular cause for alarm.
"Dermal fillers are a particular cause for concern as anyone can set themselves up as a practitioner, with no requirement for knowledge, training or previous experience.
There is a particular cause for concern if the recent meeting with donors by Tommy Thompson, secretary of health and human services, becomes standard practice.
He argues that creating "a post-bureaucratic state", with a small centre and a multitude of public and private providers, should be a particular cause for the centre-left to embrace.
That's a particular cause of angst for offensive-minded coaches, who believe that defensive linemen, whose hand placement will be blocked from the umpire's view, may have an advantage in their trench tussles with their offensive counterparts.
If a rash is present, it may indicate a particular cause of meningitis; for instance, meningitis caused by meningococcal bacteria may be accompanied by a characteristic rash.
The cumulative incidence for a particular cause of failure is the probability of experiencing this cause of failure until time t, in the presence of all the other possible causes.
The sensitivity of a verbal autopsy for a particular cause of death such as HIV/AIDS is the proportion of the deceased whose verbal autopsy cause of death is correctly identified as HIV/AIDS out of all those who truly died from HIV/AIDS, while the specificity is the proportion whose cause of death is identified as not HIV/AIDS among those who truly did not die from HIV/AIDS [ 2].
Given that in the last year of life needs will most likely be the most homogenous, any differences between the utilisation rate in that period for a particular cause of death is more likely to be attributable to causes other than illness severity rather than differences observed in the second or third years prior to death.
