High blood pressure used to be diagnosed at a measurement of 140/90 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg) or higher.
Liver disease is the fifth biggest - and fastest-growing – killer in the UK but a lack of obvious symptoms means it can be diagnosed at a late stage.
Because they often assume they are not at risk, their cancers tend to be diagnosed at a more advanced stage, and patients often face a bleaker outcome.
In addition to its role in breast cancer risk, breast density makes it difficult to identify cancer on a mammogram, potentially increasing the risk that cancer will be diagnosed at a later stage.
It is gall bladder cancer that is a disease of old age, that tends to be diagnosed at a late stage, by which time the liver bed is often involved.
Besides a higher incidence of breast cancer in overweight women that could be attributed to estrogen, their cancers tend to be diagnosed at a later stage, possibly compromising their survival.
Lung, pancreatic and oesophageal cancer are examples where survival is still low - partly because they tend to be diagnosed at a later stage when they're much harder to treat.
Although few statistically significant results were obtained, low birthweight infants and individuals of a multiple gestation tended to be diagnosed at a later stage and were more likely to be current asthmatics seeking healthcare services than normal-weight infants and individuals of a singleton gestation.
Younger populations are more likely to be diagnosed at a later stage, and this age disparity is not well understood.
"Lung, pancreatic, oesophageal cancer and brain tumours still have relatively low survival rates, partly because they tend to be diagnosed at a later stage when they're much harder to treat".
Without adequate provision of preventive healthcare, patients with illnesses would generally be diagnosed at a later stage (or even when they have developed further complications), and thus require more expenditure for treatment [22] and may result in a longer duration of disability.
