Perito Médico Federal (INSS MPS) Practice Questions - Concurso Perito Médico Federal - Perícia Médica Previdenciária (INSS MPS) Exam

A contributory factor or concausa in the development of a multifactorial disorder, such as essential arterial hypertension in high-stress occupations. The necessary and direct cause of the disease (etiological cause), without which the pathology would not occur, such as Silicosis, Asbestosis, and Saturnism (Lead poisoning). An aggravating factor or trigger of a pre-existing latent medical disease, such as occupational asthma triggered by workplace irritants in an atopic individual. An incidental coincidence where workplace exposure bears zero epidemiological or causal correlation with the clinical outcome.