Of course, these results do not show that bleeding events themselves directly lead to increased length of stay or death; thus, causation cannot be inferred from these analyses.
Because prior disease can cause both weight loss and death, reverse causation is an important potential source of bias in estimates of associations between obesity and mortality and could, in principle, generate effects similar to those we observed.
Haemorrhage was the commonest cause of all maternal deaths (25%), but causation varied between the ante-partum, intra-partum and post-partum periods.
That may have been marginally bad for their health but it does not explain the huge jump in the death rate.Correlation is not causation.
With its high-priced attorneys, scientists and academics, Chevron has bamboozled one activist U.S. judge and some legal reporters into believing that to prove causation of death and disease the villagers must all but exhume dead bodies and examine them until finding drops of oil inside with the Texaco brand.
There were no significant differences in causation of death according to species.
Strong considerations include psychological resistance concerning the causation of death through intentional acts by the physician, and the contravention of legal norms [ 19, 20].
As Freud put it, "Our habit is to lay stress on the fortuitous causation of the death – accident, disease, infection, advanced age; in this way we betray an effort to reduce death from a necessity to a chance event".
Big, dramatic events, such as explosions, gun battles, and natural disasters, stick in our heads and stay there, undermining our ability to think objectively about things like causation, probabilities, and death rates.
