{"id":1001,"date":"2010-01-19T17:07:50","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T16:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:17:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:17:11","slug":"what-is-the-prognosis-if-diagnosed-with-these-symptoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/1001","title":{"rendered":"What is the prognosis if diagnosed with these symptoms?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your question.<\/p>\n<p>Prognosis is the medical term to refer the the expected outcome for any individual depending on their current health and diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>With HIV, this is mainly related to a persons CD4 count: the higher the count the better, with counts below 350, 200 and 50 becoming increasingly more serious and life threatening.<\/p>\n<p>However, even someone diagnosed with a very low CD4 count (ie under 50 cells\/mm3) can expect a good response from treatment and can turn this into a good prognosis.<\/p>\n<p>Throat symptoms can be relatively easy-to-treat early symptoms but weight loss and fatigue can often mean that the CD4 count has already dropped below 200. Either way,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the prognosis for someone who is diagnosed at a stage where they are presenting with severe throat infections, weight loss and fatigue?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,29,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-opportunistic-infections","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}