{"id":6561,"date":"2012-04-04T14:21:04","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T14:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=6561"},"modified":"2012-04-04T14:21:04","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T14:21:04","slug":"will-hivarvs-shorten-my-life-regardless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/6561","title":{"rendered":"Will HIV\/ARVs shorten my life, regardless?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>Thank-you for you question. It&#8217;s not the case that your life will necessarily be shortened by HIV.<\/p>\n<p>According to modeling somebody diagnosed with HIV aged 25 can have a life expectancy virtually the same as somebody who is HIV negative. An observational study of people living with HIV in the Netherlands found that the difference in life expectancy was less that 5 months for somebody diagnosed at 25. For somebody diagnosed at 55 the reduction in life expectancy found from this study was less than 1 1\/2 years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.lww.com\/aidsonline\/Fulltext\/2010\/06190\/Life_expectancy_of_recently_diagnosed_asymptomatic.15.aspx\">Link to this study<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given all the new drugs available why can&#8217;t a newly diagnosed HIV positive person with currently high CD4 and low viral load live as long as someone who is negative, once they start treatment and have good tolerance and adherence? Is the disease and\/or medication going to shorten my life, regardless?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-life-expectancy","category-living-with-hiv-long-term"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6561","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}