The phrase "indirect cause" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to an event or action that indirectly leads to another event or outcome. Example: The company's new marketing strategy was an indirect cause of their increased sales, as it led to more exposure and brand recognition in the market.
In Jamaica, SCD has become a significant indirect cause of maternal mortality [ 2] and contributes as a causative factor to 0.7% of cases of chronic renal failure [ 3].
A lack of access to education is another indirect cause of child labour.
They made the surprising discovery that the virus was only the indirect cause; it triggered the cancer by modifying the activity of a gene already within the cells.
Still other chemicals will be added to the list if we include those whose action on living tissues or cells may be considered an indirect cause of malignancy.
According to the WHO, it is estimated to be the direct or indirect cause of suffering to 70% of the population of Uganda.
The indirect cause of its downfall was targeting powerful figures in Silicon Valley, which largely views unions as outdated impediments to technological disruption.
And those who live near its former shores say this shrinkage is one indirect cause of violence in the region, and the subsequent displacement.
Pratyaya, ( Sanskrit: "cause") Pāli paccaya, in Buddhist philosophy, an auxiliary, indirect cause, as distinguished from a direct cause (hetu).
Helen, Greek Helene, in Greek legend, the most beautiful woman of Greece and the indirect cause of the Trojan War.
For among Leda's offspring by Zeus, according to Greek mythology, are two sisters: Helen, destined to become the indirect cause of the Trojan War; and Clytemnestra, who murdered her husband, Agamemnon, after his return from the war.
Her trenchant journalism led to her being declared persona non grata in Pakistan by Ayub Khan, brought down finance minister T T Krishnamachari in the Mundhra affair, and was an indirect cause of the 1962 Border War between India and China, when she discovered the Chinese building a road in Indian Aksai Chin - and reported it privately to Nehru.
