Nickan Research Institute Journal of Renal Endocrinology 2423-6438 5 1 2019 01 01 Overweight and obesity among HIV infected patients; a forgotten problem e03 e03 EN Beuy Joob https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5281-0369 Viroj Wiwanitkit https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1039-3728 Journal Article 2018 09 12 2018 12 07 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 542 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