Is it safe to say that obesity is a risk factor for diabetes but not a cause?
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* a ‘Cause’ is something that literally causes the outcome.
* Blunt force trauma to the head could be a ’cause’ for death.
* ‘Risk Factors’ are things that are correlated or associated with an outcome.
* Working on a slanted roof, 20 feet about the ground, with no fall-prevention or fall-protection equipment is a risk-factor for death.
* As others have pointed out something can be both a risk-factor, and a cause.
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