Rehab Medical

Family medicine · Heliopolis, Cairo

Your family's health is decided years before anyone feels ill.

Diabetes and high blood pressure arrive without symptoms. They are found by a test, not by a feeling — and found early, they cost you a tablet a day instead of a hospital bed. That is the whole job of a family doctor.

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of Egyptian adults have raised blood glucose
15.5%of Egyptian adults have raised blood glucose
Egyptian adults live with high blood pressure
≈3 in 10Egyptian adults live with high blood pressure
of Egyptian adults are living with obesity
35.7%of Egyptian adults are living with obesity

Health in Egypt

What is actually happening in Egypt.

Every figure here is published national data, with its source and year next to it. We put them on the site because most people are never shown them — and because they are the reason a routine check-up is worth an hour of your day.

01Risk factors

Four things one national survey found in Egyptian adults

Each bar is a share of adults aged 15–69, drawn from 0 to 100% of the track behind it. All four come from the same survey in the same year — which is the only reason they are allowed on one axis.

  • Under 5 servings of fruit and veg a day90.3%
  • Living with obesity35.7%
  • Currently use tobacco22.7%
  • Raised blood glucose15.5%
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MeasureFigureSourceYear
Under 5 servings of fruit and veg a day90.3%Egypt STEPS survey, ages 15–69 (WHO, Ministry of Health and Population, CAPMAS)2017
Living with obesity35.7%Egypt STEPS survey, ages 15–69 (WHO, Ministry of Health and Population, CAPMAS)2017
Currently use tobacco22.7%Egypt STEPS survey, ages 15–69 (WHO, Ministry of Health and Population, CAPMAS)2017
Raised blood glucose15.5%Egypt STEPS survey, ages 15–69 (WHO, Ministry of Health and Population, CAPMAS)2017
Source: Egypt STEPS survey, ages 15–69 (WHO, Ministry of Health and Population, CAPMAS), 2017

02Blood pressure

Roughly three adults in ten are living with high blood pressure

Recent national estimates cluster around 29–30%, though studies range widely. High blood pressure causes no symptoms until it causes damage — a two-minute measurement is the whole test.

3 in 10 adults. Recent national estimates cluster around 29–30%, and it causes no symptoms until it causes damage.

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MeasureFigureSourceYear
Egyptian adults live with high blood pressure≈3 in 10Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, WHO EMRO2022
Source: Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, WHO EMRO, 2022

03Hepatitis C

What happens when a country screens everybody

Per 100 people living with hepatitis C in Egypt. The third bar is the two published figures multiplied: 87 of every 100 were diagnosed, and 93% of those were treated.

  1. Living with hepatitis C100
  2. Diagnosed87
  3. Treated81

People per 100 living with hepatitis C

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MeasureFigureSourceYear
Living with hepatitis C100World Health Organization2023
Diagnosed87World Health Organization2023
Treated81World Health Organization2023
Source: World Health Organization, 2023

04The evidence

Every figure on this page, and where it came from

No number appears on this site without its source, its year and a link to it. Where credible sources disagree — as they do on the share of deaths caused by long-term illness — we leave the figure out rather than pick the one we like.

What we treat

Start with what's worrying you.

Each of these has a page in Arabic, English and French — what it is, how it's found, and what a visit involves. Written by the practice, in words a worried person can read.

How we help

What a family doctor actually changes.

Not much of medicine is dramatic. Most of what keeps a family well is three unremarkable things done consistently.

Find it before it speaks

A blood test, a blood pressure cuff and ten minutes of history catch nearly everything on this page while it is still cheap and quiet to treat.

Keep it steady for years

A long-term condition is not cured at one visit; it is held level across hundreds of them. Someone has to remember your numbers from last spring. That is the point of having one doctor.

Treat the family, not the visit

Diabetes, blood pressure and heart disease run in families. When one person is diagnosed here, we tell you plainly who else in the house should be tested, and when.

Dr. Rehab Ahmed

The doctor

One doctor who knows the whole story.

Eight years looking after Cairo families — everyday illness, long-term conditions like diabetes and blood pressure, and the check-ups that stop small things becoming serious.

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8years in family practice
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Before you come

Questions patients ask

The best time to find it was five years ago. The second best is this week.

A first check-up takes under an hour. Booking it takes one message.

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