{"id":188,"date":"2007-10-03T14:53:19","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T13:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=188"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:18:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:18:42","slug":"what-does-a-cd4-count-of-696-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/188","title":{"rendered":"What does a CD4 count of 696 mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being worried is normal, especially if you have just been diagnosed.<\/p>\n<p>CD4 is a receptor on the surface of a type of white blood cells that the immune system uses in the process of protection of your body. That is why the cells are also sometimes called CD4 cells.<\/p>\n<p>HIV uses the CD4 cells to replicate and during that process it destroys them. As a result, the CD4 count in a HIV-positive person who is not on treatment declines with time. The CD4 count also shows how much damage HIV has caused.<\/p>\n<p>95% of HIV-negative people will have a CD4 count that is between 500 and 1500 per mL blood. Your result is good and, depending on the speed of your infection progresses, you may not need treatment for a while &#8211; probably for several years.<\/p>\n<p>You can find some <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/category\/cd4-and-viral-load\">answers to questions about CD4 counts<\/a> from this site if you follow the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just received my first CD4 count after being diagnosed HIV-positive a week ago. It<\/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-188","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\/188","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=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}