{"id":4342,"date":"2011-07-06T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T10:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=4342"},"modified":"2011-07-06T10:25:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T10:25:00","slug":"what-does-a-cd4-count-of-254-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/4342","title":{"rendered":"What does a CD4 count of 254 mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your CD4 count is a marker of your immune system.<\/p>\n<p>The results of how your CD4 count changes over time are used to interpret how HIV has progressed. One CD4 counts doesn&#8217;t tell you very much. This is because depending on how recently you were infected it might increase again or already be declining.<\/p>\n<p>Your CD4 count is also used to decide when to start treatment.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All guidelines recommend starting treatment when your CD4 count drops below 200.<\/li>\n<li>Most guidelines also recommend treatment when your CD4 count is below 350.<\/li>\n<li>Guidelines in the US and some Europe and Western countries include a recommendation to start even earlier.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information see <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/section-1\/17-cd4-count-as-a-surrogate-marker\">this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does a CD4 count of 254 mean?<\/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-4342","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\/4342","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=4342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}