The phrase "attributable to reverse" is not correct and may cause confusion in written English.
It could be used in contexts discussing causes or effects, but it lacks clarity without additional context.
Example: "The errors in the report are attributable to reverse engineering processes that were not properly documented."
Alternatives: "due to reversal" or "caused by reversing".
For instance, the cross-sectional associations observed between income/wealth rank and health could be partially attributable to reverse causality.
This may suggest that the results are not necessarily attributable to reverse causation brought about by differences in residential preference.
Patients who died within 2 years of index BMI recording were excluded from the study to limit possible biases attributable to reverse causation.
Hair measures are subject to contamination; if the behavior of the "learning disabled" children leads to contamination, then the finding may be attributable to reverse causality.
Our analysis also shows an inverse association of child serum BDE-153, but not other pentaBDE congeners, with concurrent markers of body mass at age 7 years, though this may be attributable to reverse causality.
To investigate the possible biases attributable to reverse causation (that is, low BMI due to pre-existing disease resulting in increased mortality), sensitivity analyses were conducted excluding no deaths and those within 2 and 5 years after BMI determination.
We were not able to predict historical serum concentrations of other common PFAAs as we could for PFOA, but we hypothesize that the observed cross-sectional associations of measured serum concentrations of PFOS, PFNA, and PFHxS with decreased kidney function may also be attributable at least partly to reverse causation.
Furthermore, we ensured that the effect of anxiety was specific to the task condition of interest (manipulation) and not attributable to a reverse effect in the reference condition (maintenance).
In the context of existing work, these results add to the suggestion that observational relations between l-ascorbic acid and cardiometabolic health may be attributable to confounding and reverse causation.
Some researchers have speculated that observed relationships between cholesterol levels and cancer might be attributable to cholesterol-lowering action of preclinical cancer (25), that is, to reverse causation.
This suggests that the observed results could be due to reverse causality, caused by sick people moving to poorer areas, rather than being attributable to a lifetime of exposure to adverse risks.
