The overall disability rate rose from about 13 percent to just over 15 percent during the 12-year study period.

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In fact, because older adults with heart disease often are less able to exercise and have a higher disability rate, they may benefit the most from a cardiac rehabilitation program.

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Hispanic children had lower rates of disabilities than white or black children, which perhaps reflects language difficulties and other barriers to accessing health services rather than the true rate of disability.

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Peers voted by 246 to 230, majority of 16, to reject plans to cut some of the benefits given to children on the lower rate of Disability Living Allowance (DLA), during third reading of the Welfare Reform Bill on 31 January 2012.

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We Are Spartacus, an online campaign group about disabled people's views on the welfare system, analysed figures from the Department for Work and Pensions and Motability, the organisation that supplies lease cars and specialist converted vehicles to disabled people claiming the highest mobility rate of Disability Living Allowance.

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In one study the cooling increased the rate of survival with minimal or moderate disability from 26% to 49%, according to results published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

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The employment rate for working-age Americans with a disability is about 18 percent, down from 20 percent four years ago.

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The group also projects that reform could, among other things, lower the unemployment rate and increase the labor supply by reducing disability and absenteeism.

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The assessments determine whether applicants are entitled to the highest rate of ESA - for those deemed unable to work at all due to sickness or disability - or are considered "fit for work", in which case they are put on jobseeker's allowance instead.

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