{"id":1996,"date":"2010-06-10T10:03:03","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T10:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=1996"},"modified":"2010-06-10T10:03:03","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T10:03:03","slug":"does-anxiety-and-depression-affect-my-cd4-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/1996","title":{"rendered":"Does anxiety and depression affect my CD4 count?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>Anxiety, depression and any underlying infection can affect the CD4 count making it lower than normal. Some people do see a slight increase in their CD4 count once the anxiety, depression or underlying infection is over. However, if someone is not yet on treatment the CD4 count may not increase very much again until HIV treatment is started.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on CD4 counts and when to start treatments please follow this <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/starting\/cd4-count-and-risk-of-illness\">link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To what extent can factors such as anxiety, depression or flu affect the CD4 count? If the affect is significant is it better to address the anxiety and tension or any other factor before the CD4 count test?<\/p>\n<p>I ask this question because the CD4 count is an indicator about starting HIV treatment. Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1996","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\/1996","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=1996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}