{"id":150,"date":"2007-08-07T13:30:43","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T12:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=150"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:18:45","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:18:45","slug":"is-cd4-count-or-cd4-percentage-more-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/150","title":{"rendered":"Is CD4 count or CD4 percentage more important?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>The first thing is that I would try to stop you worrying. Your CD4 count is very strong, your viral load is low and your CD4 percentage is still also good.<\/p>\n<p>The decision of when to start treatment includes a balance of all three results, and how they change over time. If one changes a little, it is worth continuing to monitor in case it is just a blip results and the next time it is back to normal.<\/p>\n<p>If the trend for any one result suggests treatment &#8211; then this may be a reasonable reason to start treatment &#8211; whatever the other results.<\/p>\n<p>Even with a high absolute CD4 count (over 350-500), if your CD4 percentage drops below 10% it may therefore be reasonable to start treatment a bit earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does having a high CD4 count of 592 cells\/mm3 and a low viral load of 7000 copies\/mL, but a  CD4 percentage of only 13%, indicate serious immune damage and need of treatment?<\/p>\n<p>Even though CD4 count is high my CD4 percentage is very low.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, signed, very worried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,30,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-other-tests","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","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=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}