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The findings of this study indicate a link between bipolar disorder and altered metabolite levels, supporting the notion that circulating metabolites play an important etiological role in bipolar disease and other psychiatric disorders.

From Science Daily • Apr. 30, 2024

Once general risk has been assessed, etiological factors can be more accurately evaluated in determining the part they play in a diagnosis.

From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2024

He noted that the "German cockroach, a pernicious household pest, plays an important etiological role in allergic disease and asthma. It also serves as a mechanical vector of pathogens, including antibiotic-resistant microbes."

From Salon • Jul. 3, 2022

But in both sorts of cases crucial instances may, with care, be found which determine at least the general etiological law for each malady.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

Syphilis is not an etiological factor in any of these groups.

From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Warfield, Louis Marshall