{"id":613,"date":"2008-10-10T13:29:36","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T12:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=613"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:17:33","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:17:33","slug":"is-this-a-significant-drop-in-my-cd4-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/613","title":{"rendered":"Is this a significant drop in my CD4 count?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I agree with your doctors. These two results are so close that the difference is not important.<\/p>\n<p>There are many factors that can affect the CD4 readings. Among them are: stress, time of the day, any other underlying infections, menstruation (women), smoking, recent exercise or meal and many others.<\/p>\n<p>There is some very detailed and good information on CD4 counts and percentages, as well as how to interpret them <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/section-1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been recently diagnosed as being HIV+ within the last month. My first CD4 count was 504.<\/p>\n<p>My second CD4 count which I got today was 460. Is this a significant drop?<\/p>\n<p>My doctors say not to worry about it.<\/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-613","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\/613","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=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}