{"id":1985,"date":"2010-06-10T09:42:32","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T09:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=1985"},"modified":"2010-06-10T09:42:32","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T09:42:32","slug":"does-hiv-medication-increase-the-rate-of-ageing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/1985","title":{"rendered":"Does HIV medication increase the rate of ageing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>HIV medication does not make you look older or increase the rate of aging.<\/p>\n<p>Untreated, HIV infection itself, however, can increase the speed of some aspects of aging. Treating HIV and having an undetectable viral load is thought to reduce many of these risks.<\/p>\n<p>A recent guide to HIV and aging, produced by another organisation, is at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hivtri.com\/comingofage\/index.html\">this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A technical article on some aspects of HIV and aging on the immune system is at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/6050\">this link.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does HIV medication increase the rate of ageing? i.e do you tend to look much older more quickly because of HIV medication?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-living-with-hiv-long-term"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}