Beuy Joob - Sanitation۱ Medical Academic Center, Bangkok Thailand
Viroj Wiwanitkit - Honorary professor, Dr DY Patil University, Pune India; visiting professor, Hainan Medical University, China; adjunct professor, Joseph Ayobabalola University, Nigeria; visiting professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Nis, Serbia

Body mass index (BMI) is an important anthropometric parameter in clinical medicine. In the patients with metabolic syndrome, the abnormal BMI is commonly seen. The overweight and obesity is an important health problem that is observed around the world in the present day. Nevertheless, the overweight and obesity might be a forgotten problem in some specific groups of patients. Here, is the authors’ reports on the observation of BMI among ۵۴۲ human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infected patients in our medical center. Of interest, there is a high incidence of overweight and obesity among our patients. The problem of overweight and obesity is rarely mentioned in HIV medicine. Due to the good antiretroviral therapy in control of HIV, the awareness of the problem among the HIV infected patients is required in the present day.

Overweight, Obesity, Body mass index, Human immunodeficiency virus