Do you have enough information about your patients' symptoms to diagnose HIV-associated Wasting?
HIV-associated Wasting is not always easy to diagnose. These patient profiles may help you have a more productive conversation with your patients so you can recognize this condition when you see it.

HIV-associated Wasting is a serious but treatable condition. When left untreated it is linked to higher mortality and faster disease progression.1,2
In one study, weight loss of ≥ 5% in 6 months or ≥ 3% from baseline was a significant predictor of mortality.2
Consider assessing your patients for HIV-associated Wasting by:
- Measuring weight
- Visually examining physical appearance
- Calculating BMI
- Evaluating physical endurance
- Assessing patient-reported outcomes
For a list of questions you can ask to engage your patients in a dialogue about their unintentional weight loss, click here.
HIV-associated Wasting can affect anyone living with HIV, including:
Learn More about how HIV-associated Wasting Continued to Occur in People Living With HIV, Despite Modern Antiretroviral Therapy: A Retrospective Medical and Pharmacy Claims Study (2012-2018)
Learn More about how HIV-associated Wasting Continued to Occur in People Living With HIV, Despite Modern Antiretroviral Therapy: A Retrospective Medical and Pharmacy Claims Study (2012-2018)
Learn MorePatient Profiles*
- Are any activities more difficult to perform than they have been in the past?
- Are your symptoms keeping you from going about your daily activities?
- How long can you be active for before needing to rest?
- Have you noticed even greater weight loss if you think back 6 months? 12 months?
- How long have you had diarrhea?
- How many times a day/week do you have diarrhea?
- Have you had a fever?
- Have you noticed you are losing weight without trying?
- Have friends, family, or coworkers noticed any changes in your weight?
- Have you recently lost weight without trying?
- Do the changes in your weight negatively affect your health and how you feel?
- Have you noticed any changes in your energy level?
- Are you able to follow your exercise regimen?
- Are any activities more difficult to perform than they have been in the past?
- Are your symptoms keeping you from going about your daily activities?
- How long can you be active for before needing to rest?
- Have you noticed even greater weight loss if you think back 6 months? 12 months?
- How long have you had diarrhea?
- How many times a day/week do you have diarrhea?
- Have you had a fever?
- Have you noticed you are losing weight without trying?
- Have friends, family, or coworkers noticed any changes in your weight?
- Have you recently lost weight without trying?
- Do the changes in your weight negatively affect your health and how you feel?
- Have you noticed any changes in your energy level?
- Are you able to follow your exercise regimen?
Learn more about the pathogenesis of HIV-associated Wasting
Learn More- Dudgeon WD, Phillips KD, Carson JA, Brewer RB, Durstine JL, Hand GA. Counteracting muscle wasting in HIV-infected individuals. HIV Med. 2006;7(5):299-310.
- Tang AM, Jacobson DL, Spiegelman D, Knox TA, Wanke C. Increasing risk of 5% or greater unintentional weight loss in a cohort of HIV-infected patients, 1995 to 2003. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2005;40(1):70-76.
- Macallan DC. Wasting in HIV infection and AIDS. J Nutr. 1999;129(1S Suppl):238S-242S.
- Chang E, Sekhar R, Patel S, Balasubramanyam A. Dysregulated energy expenditure in HIV-infected patients: a mechanistic review. Clin Infec Dis. 2007;44:1509-1517.
- Wasserman P, Segal-Maurer S, Wehbeh W, Rubin DS. Wasting disease, chronic immune activation, and inflammation in the HIV-infected patient. Top Clin Nutr. 2011;26(1):14-28.
- Ashby J, Goldmeier D, Sadeghi-Nejad H. Hypogonadism in human immunodeficiency virus-positive men. Korean J Urol. 2014;55(1):9-16.
- Deeks SG, Tracy R, Douek DC. Systemic effects of inflammation on health during chronic HIV infection. Immunity. 2013;39:633-645.