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CAS Melville

Warwick Medical School (retd)
Verified email at warwick.ac.uk
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The prevalence and determinants of obesity in adults with intellectual disabilities

CA Melville, S Hamilton, CR Hankey, S Miller… - Obesity …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
People with intellectual disabilities experience significant health inequalities compared with
the general population, including a shorter life expectancy and high levels of unmet health …

Parental perceptions of facilitators and barriers to physical activity for children with intellectual disabilities: A mixed methods systematic review

AM McGarty, CA Melville - Research in developmental disabilities, 2018 - Elsevier
Background There is a need increase our understanding of what factors affect physical
activity participation in children with intellectual disabilities (ID) and develop effective …

[BOOK][B] A history of Persian earthquakes

NN Ambraseys, CP Melville - 2005 - books.google.com
Modern plate tectonic theory, the development of earthquake prediction and the mitigation of
earthquake hazards are based on the study of earthquakes during the twentieth century …

[HTML][HTML] Weight management interventions in adults with intellectual disabilities and obesity: a systematic review of the evidence

D Spanos, CA Melville, CR Hankey - Nutrition journal, 2013 - Springer
To evaluate the clinical effectiveness of weight management interventions in adults with
intellectual disabilities (ID) and obesity using recommendations from current clinical …

The Seismicity of Egypt, Arabia and the Red Sea

NN Ambraseys, CP Melville, RD Adams - (No Title), 1994 - cir.nii.ac.jp
抄録< jats: p> A careful and intensive study of historical sources and a review of the
instrumental data of this century have led to this detailed catalogue of earthquakes. Egypt …

Relapse in schizophrenia.

MI Herz, C Melville - The American journal of psychiatry, 1980 - europepmc.org
Although schizophrenia is a chronic illness with exacerbations and remissions, there has
been surprisingly little systematic study of early signs of relapse. The authors gave 145 …

Obesity in adults with Down syndrome: a case–control study

CA Melville, SA Cooper, CW McGrother… - Journal of …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Background Obesity has a negative impact upon mortality and morbidity. Studies report that
obesity is more prevalent in individuals with Down syndrome than individuals with …

People with intellectual disabilities

SA Cooper, C Melville, J Morrison - BMJ, 2004 - bmj.com
are, however, changing and the population of people with intellectual disabilities increased
by 53% over the 35 year period 1960-95, which equals 1.2% per year. 1 A further 11 …

[HTML][HTML] Vigabatrin with hormonal treatment versus hormonal treatment alone (ICISS) for infantile spasms: 18-month outcomes of an open-label, randomised …

…, S Mathew, A McLellan, C Melville… - The Lancet Child & …, 2018 - thelancet.com
Background Infantile spasms constitute a severe form of epileptic encephalopathy. In the
International Collaborative Infantile Spasms Study (ICISS), we showed that combining …

[HTML][HTML] A meta-analysis of working memory in individuals with autism spectrum disorders

A Habib, L Harris, F Pollick, C Melville - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Background Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are lifelong neurodevelopmental disorders. It
is not clear whether working memory (WM) deficits are commonly experienced by …