{"id":440,"date":"2008-05-13T10:22:27","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T09:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=440"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:18:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:18:27","slug":"do-fast-progressors-have-a-short-life-expectancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/440","title":{"rendered":"Do fast progressors have a shorter life expectancy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are right that there is a very wide range of responses to HIV infection.<\/p>\n<p>Although most people can go 5-6 years before they need treatment, a few people progress more quickly (fast progressors) and a few people can go for much longer (slow progressors).<\/p>\n<p>Without treatment, things are worse if you progress quickly.<\/p>\n<p>However, there is no difference between how well treatment works, or how long it works for. With treatment, fast progressors should have the same life expectancy as slow progressors.<\/p>\n<p>Life expectancy may even be slightly better for people who start early treatment. Some recent studies are showing that being on treatment with undetectable viral load can be protective of serious illness, compared to having detectable viral load, even with high CD4 counts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people they can go nearly 20 years with HIV and not need treatment, whilst others start treatment within a year of being infected.  For these people who start treatment early, who are fast progressors, is their life expectancy shorter?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,26,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-living-with-hiv-long-term","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","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=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}