Full body check-up in Dubai: what it should include and cost

A full body check-up in Dubai is usually a package of blood tests, sometimes with a urine test, a doctor's consultation, an ECG or a scan. A sensible one checks cholesterol, HbA1c, kidney and liver function, a full blood count, thyroid, vitamin D and iron stores. When we read public prices on 11 October 2026, check-up packages cost from 69 to 3,950 at 16 UAE providers, and what was inside them varied as much as the price.

This guide is about choosing one: what belongs in it, what is often missing, how often guidance says adults should test, and what to ask before you pay. For what happens on the morning itself, from fasting to the blood draw, see Comprehensive blood test in Dubai: what to expect.

What does a full body check-up mean in the UAE?

No medical body defines it. "Full body", "comprehensive", "executive" and "wellness" are package names, and each provider decides what goes inside. The packages we read fell into three kinds.

• Lab tests alone. Blood, and sometimes urine, collected at a clinic or at home. Most lower-priced packages are this kind.
• Lab tests with a doctor. The same blood work, plus a consultation or a doctor's written review of the results.
• Hospital check-ups. A consultation and examination with extras such as an ECG, a chest X-ray, an ultrasound, or eye and dental checks.

The test counts in package names need care, because laboratories count every line of a report. One home package we read listed 54 parameters, and 28 of them came from the blood count. Clare's own total is counted the same way: its 100+ results include 21 from the blood count and 21 from the urine test. A larger number does not mean wider coverage. What matters is which parts of the body the tests reach.

Which blood tests should a full body check-up include?

A sensible core covers conditions that are common and often cause no symptoms in their early years. These are the tests most check-ups are built from, and why each one earns its place.

Two of these come with a caveat. For adults without symptoms, the US Preventive Services Task Force found too little evidence to recommend routine thyroid screening (2015), and the Endocrine Society suggests against routine vitamin D testing (2024). Both are still common in UAE packages, and vitamin D has a local reason: in a study of 60,979 patients tested at one Abu Dhabi hospital between 2012 and 2014, 82.5% had levels the authors classed as deficient or insufficient. Read these two as useful background rather than as screening tests.

What do cheaper packages often leave out?

Price did not always follow contents. Reading the package pages behind the prices, these gaps came up most often.

• HbA1c. Some packages check blood sugar with a random sample and nothing else. The American Diabetes Association lists HbA1c, fasting glucose and a two-hour glucose tolerance test for screening; a random reading is not on that list for people without symptoms. The lowest-priced package we read listed a random blood sugar, and an 899 home offer listed a blood glucose without HbA1c.
• Thyroid, vitamin D and iron. These tend to arrive in the middle and upper tiers. One seller's 69 package listed no TSH or vitamin D, while its 135 tier added vitamin D, a thyroid profile, an iron profile and CRP.
• Sometimes, the basics. One 700 hospital package with a doctor's examination and a chest X-ray listed thyroid, vitamin D and a blood count, but no cholesterol test and no HbA1c.
• The wider heart markers. In most package lists the heart section stopped at the standard lipid profile. More than 90% of a person's Lp(a) level is set by their genes, and the European Atherosclerosis Society advises measuring it at least once in adulthood. ApoB: the cholesterol number most UAE panels skip explains why ApoB is worth adding too.
• Urine albumin. For people with diabetes or high blood pressure, KDIGO advises a urine albumin test alongside eGFR. Some packages include it as a urine albumin-to-creatinine ratio.
• Someone to go through the results. Packages without a doctor send a report. Whether a doctor reads it with you, and whether that costs extra, is worth asking before you book.

How often should adults have a health check-up?

Guidance sets intervals test by test, not for a whole package. The UAE guidance here comes from Abu Dhabi's Department of Health, which runs a periodic screening programme for Emirati adults covered by Thiqa and sets the local standard for diabetes screening. The rest comes from international bodies.

Two things stand out. Blood is a small part of screening: in the Abu Dhabi programme the blood tests are blood sugar, cholesterol and creatinine, and the rest is blood pressure, weight, cancer screening and a conversation with a doctor. And age shapes the case for testing more than the size of the package does. In a UAE study of 2,724 adult migrants tested in 2013 and 2014, diabetes rose from 6.3% of those aged 18 to 30 to 39.7% of those aged 51 to 60, and 64.2% of the people with diabetes were newly diagnosed by the study.

Figures like these are why guidance ties testing to age and repeats it on a schedule. A blood sugar test is simple, and repeated, it shows how things change over the years.

How much does a full body check-up cost in Dubai?

When we read public prices on 11 October 2026, 29 check-up packages at 16 UAE providers cost from 69 to 3,950. The middle price was 699.

The higher prices mostly bought people and equipment rather than more blood tests. Of the 15 packages under 700, two included a doctor's consultation or review. Of the 14 at 700 or more, eight added a consultation, an ECG, or imaging such as a chest X-ray or an ultrasound.

Read every price with its conditions:

• Most pages did not say whether VAT was included.
• Seven of the 29 were offer prices set against a higher listed price, and one offer covered two people.
• The three lowest prices, all from one seller, were marked out of stock on the day we read them.
• Many home packages include the nurse's visit. Where a visit is charged on its own, the fees we saw reached 199 or more, and some providers waive the fee when a package is booked.

What should you ask before booking a check-up?

1. Can I see every test by name, in writing? A count is not a list.
2. Is blood sugar checked with HbA1c or a fasting sample, or with a random reading?
3. Is ferritin included, or serum iron alone?
4. Which thyroid tests are in it: TSH alone, or TSH with free T4?
5. Do I need to fast, and for how long?
6. Is the price for one person, does it include VAT and the home visit, and is it an offer?
7. Who goes through the results with me, and is that included?
8. Will I get the full report, with the laboratory's reference ranges, as a file I can keep?
9. If I repeat the check-up next year, can the same laboratory run it? Methods and ranges differ between laboratories, so staying with one makes results easier to compare.

Where does Clare's panel fit?

Clare's panel is a set of blood and urine tests: 100+ results, 88 measured by a licensed lab partner and 23 calculated by Clare from those. It covers every area in the table of tests above, plus ApoB, Lp(a), hs-CRP, Fasting Insulin with HOMA-IR, Vitamin B12, Folate and a set of hormones. The full list is on What we test. Blood pressure, an ECG, imaging and cancer screening sit outside any blood panel, Clare's included, and stay with your doctor.

When Clare opens, members will keep labs, past results, records and wearable data in one account, with trends over time and plain explanations in English and Arabic. Clare does not diagnose. The explanations are there so you can talk to a doctor with your numbers in front of you.

One check-up shows where you stood on one morning. The same tests repeated a year or two apart show which way each number is moving, and a slow drift across three readings can matter even when every one of them sits inside its range. Clare is opening with a waitlist at clare.health.