{"id":54,"date":"2006-06-27T12:19:02","date_gmt":"2006-06-27T11:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=54"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:19:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:19:06","slug":"why-is-the-cd4-count-different-in-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/54","title":{"rendered":"Why is the CD4 count different in everyone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CD4 count is different because everyone has a slightly different immune        system. The range for an HIV-negative person can be anything form 500 to        1600 cells\/mm3, but some people are outside even this range. There are difficulties        with the sensitivity of the CD4 test too, so that you could test the same        sample twice and may get slightly different results. Also so that if you        took several blood samples at different times of the day, you will get different        results. With CD4 count you really think of it as an approximate test and        look for any changes in the trend.<\/p>\n<p>(Adapted from a question from the i-Base Q&amp;A pages of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.africaneyetrust.org.uk\/\">African Eye<\/a> a new treatment publication for African communities affected by HIV who are living in the UK)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CD4 count is different because everyone has a slightly different immune system. The range for an HIV-negative person can be anything form 500 to 1600 cells\/mm3, but some people are outside even this range. There are difficulties with the &hellip;<\/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-54","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\/54","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=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}