{"id":10580,"date":"2015-06-23T14:34:57","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T14:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=10580"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:16:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:16:51","slug":"why-would-my-doctor-test-for-hiv-as-well-as-hep-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/10580","title":{"rendered":"Why would my doctor test for HIV as well as hep C?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>HIV testing is now becoming much more routine, just as a general safety test. Most countries still should ask you first, but this might not always be the case.<\/p>\n<p>This is something to ask your doctor, but it is more likely to have been for your general health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just was tested for hepatitis C and my readings were: AST (SGOT) &#8211; 21UL and ACT (SGPT) &#8211; 30UL. I received a phone call and told the readings were inconclusive and wanted to test again&#8230;  I noticed on the report they are testing for HIV as well&#8230;  I have not had any risk sex for over 12 years?<\/p>\n<p>The balance of my blood tests was all in referenced range&#8230;nothing unusal.<\/p>\n<p>Does my doctor know something that I don;t understand?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10580","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=10580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24520,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10580\/revisions\/24520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}