<prompt> Which of the following is not a criteria suggesting casuality in non communicable diseases ?Strength of associationDose response relationshipSpecificity of associationLack of temporal association  <response>: Ans. is d i.e., Lack of temporal association It is the presence of temporal association not lack or absence that forms a criteria for causal relationship. Criteria that suggest causal relationship Bradford Hills criteria o Likehood of a causal relationship is increased by the presence of the following criteria. 1 Temporal association 2 Strength of association 3 Specificity of association 4 Consistency of association 5 Biological plausibility 6 Coherence of association o Hills criteria sometimes also known as Surgeon generals Criteria of causal association: in epidemiology are Analogous to Koch Postulates of causal association between a microbe and disease in microbiology. 