The phrase "a potential determinant of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing factors that may influence or determine an outcome or result in a particular context.
Example: "The study aims to identify a potential determinant of student success in online learning environments."
Alternatives: "a possible factor influencing" or "a likely cause of".
Hyperglycaemia is the hallmark of diabetes and is a potential determinant of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction.
Although discrimination has been identified as a potential determinant of existing racial/ethnic health disparities, no studies have investigated whether racial discrimination contributes to disparities in physical activity.
Recent research (Cárdenas et al. 2010; Arango et al. 2013) pointed out the dynamics of remittances as a potential determinant of the changing labor force participation rates in areas with high migration tradition.
This is, because turnover may not only be a potential determinant of employer-provided training; it may itself be influenced by firms' training behavior (see Brunello and De Paola 2009).
The fear of childbirth, a central aspect of tokophobia, recently started to capture the attention of the scientific community as a potential determinant of obstetric and post-natal complications.
Increased FAK expression and activity occurs in primary and metastatic cancers of many tissue origins, and is often associated with poor clinical outcome, highlighting FAK as a potential determinant of tumor development and metastasis.
Intracellular survival and replication is also a potential determinant of host specificity [22].
Although TG, HDL-C and LDL-c levels were significantly different in our four ethnic groups (Table 3) multiple logistic regression suggested that hypercholesterolemia was positively associated with hypertension in the whole population, not only in Kazaks, which indicates that hypercholesterolemia is a potential determinants of hypertension.
A fourth potential determinant of HPA axis activity is the presence of PTSD symptoms.
The secondary objective was to analyse spatial changes in economic development as a single potential determinant of spatial syphilis variation.
The adipocyte is therefore an obvious potential determinant of the local and systemic metabolic environment.
