reverse causation

When it is the disease that changes the measured factor — and not the other way around.

Source: The Environment and Disease: Association or Causation?
Hill AB. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine 1965;58(5):295-300
Where, in the source: pp. 297–298 — viewpoint (4) Temporality
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