{"id":2153,"date":"2010-06-17T16:44:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T16:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=2153"},"modified":"2010-06-17T16:44:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T16:44:00","slug":"what-are-average-rates-that-viral-load-increases-each-year-without-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/2153","title":{"rendered":"What are average rates that viral load increases each year without treatment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for your question and the nice feedback.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of studies have collected average results, but the average figures all have very wide ranges.<\/p>\n<p>For very slow progressors, viral load might increase by perhaps only 100 copies\/mL each year.<\/p>\n<p>In fast progressors, viral load might never comes down below 100,000 after seroconversion and they may start treatment, and never have a period off-treatment.<\/p>\n<p>For the people in between &#8211; roughly 50% of people start treatment 2-10 years after infection &#8211; it is reasonable for viral load to increase by 10\u201320,000 each year.<\/p>\n<p>This data is from the UK Seroconvertors Register, published in an article in the journal AIDS. Other studies are likely to be similar. The study is online at <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.lww.com\/aidsonline\/Fulltext\/2008\/01020\/Survival_following_HIV_infection_of_a_cohort.11.aspx\">this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, Many thanks for this wonderful service.<\/p>\n<p>I wondering if there are any studies about viral load over the years of HIV progression. I know HIV progression is different from individual to individual but I  am wondering if there are some average  figures say which predict  that:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; 1st year of infection  Viral load is expected to be less than xxx per mL<br \/>\n&#8211; 2nd year of infection  Viral load is expected to be less than xxx per mL<br \/>\n&#8211; 2-5 year of infection  Viral load is expected to be less than xxx per mL<\/p>\n<p>I am referring to HIV infection without treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Is there some research or findings in that direction?<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks for this service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cd4-and-viral-load"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153","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=2153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}