CD4 and Hypertension: Another risk factor was CD4+ count clinical status and HIV suppression. There were differing results on the association of CD4 count with hypertension, with few studies reporting no association of hypertension with CD4 count after adjusting for confounders like age, BMI, and pre-ART CD4 count [29, 35, 49, 53]. However, Bloomfield et al. reported that among men aged 16 -35 years with CD4 counts >350/μL were more likely to have elevated systolic blood pressures compared to those with CD4 <200/μL (p=0.05), but this observation was not seen with men >45 years.