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Disability is not just under recorded or underreported, it is ignored, in trials. As disability is not collected as a demographic characteristic, people with disabilities remain underserved in trials. Given 16% of the global population live with a disability, it is a threat to the generalizability of all trials and risks exacerbating health inequalities of people with a disability.
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