{"id":14946,"date":"2019-02-11T12:13:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T12:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=14946"},"modified":"2019-02-11T12:13:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T12:13:07","slug":"should-i-worry-about-my-cd4cd8-ratio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/14946","title":{"rendered":"Should I worry about my CD4:CD8 ratio?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the questions.<\/p>\n<p>The most important results are your CD4 count and your viral load.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, your CD4 count is now really strong and your viral load is getting close to undetectable again.<\/p>\n<p>Because of these results, there is no need to worry about either your CD8 count or the CD4:CD8 ratio. Luckily, a strong CD4 count seems to be the most important of these immune markers.<\/p>\n<p>Your immune system is still working very well :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been undetectable for a year, after being diagnosed, but I stopped taking meds a few months ago for financial reasons. I recently started a new combination and luckily my viral load was just around 300+. My recent lab results show my CD4 count is over 1000, 35%.<\/p>\n<p>However, my CD4:CD8 ratio has always been less than 1.0, varying between 0.57-0.75, with my CD8 count ranging from 1300 to 1500. What does that mean about my immune system? Is it still fighting hard?<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14946","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=14946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}