The phrase "are a basic cause" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing fundamental reasons or factors contributing to a particular outcome or situation.
Example: "The lack of education and resources are a basic cause of poverty in many communities."
Alternatives: "are a fundamental reason" or "are a primary factor".
Geographic isolation was a basic cause of New Mexico's slow economic development.
In addition to systematic fixes, there seems to be a basic cause and effect theory on individual levels as well.
It is possible that the shame/anger spiral might be a basic cause of violence to the extent that it loops back upon itself without limit.
Among others, low levels of insulin-like growth hormone factor (IGF-1), which mediates many of the growth hormone effects on bones, is a basic cause of reduced bone mass density in AN.
Endogenous ROS are important factors that determine signaling pathway activities controlling the development of aging and longevity phenotypes, and are therefore, a basic cause of the progressive age-associated declines in tissue functions [ 1- 6].
However, it is still not clear whether the inflammatory response found in AE skin is a primary basic cause of the disease, or if it is a secondary effect caused by other factors such as an impaired skin barrier.
It is a basic confusion of cause and effect, an apparently genuine conviction that what has been holding England back all these years is the failure to build its own luxury hotel, a lack of fancy exercise bikes and above all the absence of an altitude chamber capable of mimicking the two-yearly surprise – the outrage – of foreign-style weather.
It seems to us that this is a basic misunderstanding of cause and effect.
Neovascularization is seen by some as a basic cause of pain in Achilles tendinopathy and can be detected with power Doppler ultrasonography (PDU).
