{"id":12050,"date":"2016-09-18T18:23:16","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T18:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=12050"},"modified":"2016-09-18T18:24:52","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T18:24:52","slug":"can-i-predict-my-expected-cd4-increase-after-starting-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/12050","title":{"rendered":"Can I predict my expected CD4 increase after starting treatment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>Everyone has an individual response to treatment.<\/p>\n<p>In general, compared to the rapid drop in viral load, the CD4 change is a slower and more steady increase.<\/p>\n<p>How quickly\u00a0and how high\u00a0the CD4 count increases mainly relates to your CD4 count when you start treatment.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The lower your CD4 count when you start, the more likely it will respond slowly and not get so high.<\/li>\n<li>The higher your CD4 count when you start, the more likely it will increase more quickly and reach higher levels.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/shiny.isped.u-bordeaux.fr\/CD4refcurves\/\">new online calculator<\/a>\u00a0can compare your results to the average of people who start at the same CD4 count.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shiny.isped.u-bordeaux.fr\/CD4refcurves\">http:\/\/shiny.isped.u-bordeaux.fr\/CD4refcurves<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This involves you putting in details before you started treatment. For example, your age, sex, CD4 and viral load etc (or as much information as you know).<\/li>\n<li>Then you put in the CD4 result and date of the next test (within 9 months of starting).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please interpret the results cautiously though. They re just compared to average. Even if you get a lower than average response, you are still very likely to well on treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The results are plotted on a similar graph to the one below.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-10953\" src=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Figure-2-CD4-increases-2015-edited.png\" alt=\"Graph showing average CD4 count gain over time\" width=\"537\" height=\"472\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>i-Base guide to ART. &#8220;Average CD4 increases by starting CD4 count&#8221;. (September 2016).<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/starting\/cd4-increase\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/starting\/cd4-increase<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Everyone has an individual response to treatment. In general, compared to the rapid drop in viral load, the CD4 change is a slower and more steady increase. How quickly\u00a0and how high\u00a0the CD4 count increases mainly relates to your CD4 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12050","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=12050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}