cause secondaire de décès

CONT: Dans [les causes complexes de décès], on peut distinguer [...] la cause initiale du décès, ou cause principale du décès, et les causes associées du décès, ou causes contributives du décès, ou causes secondaires du décès.

CONT: Consequences or complications of [the disease, situation or event that started the chain of events resulting in death] are usually considered secondary causes of death, in the same way as other diseases present at the time of death that may have contributed to the death.
OBS: [A] contributory cause of death is inherently one not related to the principal cause.