{"id":865,"date":"2009-06-29T14:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T13:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=865"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:17:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:17:17","slug":"does-hiv-affect-the-liver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/865","title":{"rendered":"Does HIV affect the liver?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Checking regularly your liver function is really important and your hospital is right to insist on that, even if you do not have hepatitis. Firstly, it is a good clinical practice, then it is always better to be regularly monitored as if some health problems appear, you will be able to react quicker and avoid complications.<\/p>\n<p>HIV (if not treated with ARVs) can cause liver problems on its own. ARVs have a protective function in that respect. You can see more about the liver monitoring tests <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aidsinfonet.org\/fact_sheets\/view\/122\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder if you can tell, does having HIV affect your liver?<\/p>\n<p>The hospital have said they need to do regular LFTs. I do not have hepatitis. Thank you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-other-tests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865","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=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}