causative

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A month later, Kennedy backtracked on these remarks, saying “The causative association between Tylenol given in pregnancy … is not sufficient to say it definitely caused autism, but it is very suggestive.”

From Salon

She said that the poor care was not causative of Mr Poole's death.

From BBC

“Whether they are causative or a result—in my view, we don’t know,” Futerman says.

From Science Magazine

Blaming the deaths of 47 Black men on SCT as causative instead of associated is inaccurate and disrespectful.

From Scientific American

The causative agent, Treponema pallidum, a corkscrew-shaped bacterium, can invade the nervous system, including the brain, the eyes or the ears at any point once it hits the bloodstream.

From New York Times