{"id":21364,"date":"2023-03-22T16:14:34","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T16:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=21364"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:20:23","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:20:23","slug":"can-a-low-cd4-count-define-a-late-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/21364","title":{"rendered":"Can a low CD4 count define a late diagnosis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, how are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>This is difficult to define. While being diagnosed with HIV and having a CD4 count lower than 350 is considered late, the progression of HIV will be different in everybody.<\/p>\n<p>Some people will have their CD4 count below 350 within a year of HIV transmission and others can still be above after 10.<\/p>\n<p>What you have said about 3 years being on average if you dropped 50\/year would be correct. But it is impossible to say who would be average and who would respond to HIV in a more extreme way. For this reason individual people cannot have their exposure dated to pinpoint when they became positive.<\/p>\n<p>Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If CD4 count under 350 is a &#8216;late diagnosis&#8217; &#8211; how long roughly is that average in years? for an example &#8211; on average if cell counts go down 50 cells per year and you start at 500 CD4 count &#8211; would that mean &#8216;roughly&#8217; you would&#8217;ve had it for 3 years?<\/p>\n<p>What defines &#8216;late diagnosis&#8217;? for an example &#8211; at least 2 years? etc?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-hiv-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21364","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21365,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21364\/revisions\/21365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}