{"539441":{"#nid":"539441","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Study: Binge drinking may disrupt immune systems of healthy young adults","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/mailview.bulletinhealthcare.com\/mailview.aspx?m=2014123101ama\u0026amp;r=6127647-b5c6\u0026amp;l=045-407\u0026amp;t=c\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EHuffington Post\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(12\/31, Gregoire) reported that a study published in the journal Alcohol and conducted by Loyola University researchers suggested that \u201cbinge drinking \u2018significantly disrupts\u2019 the immune systems of healthy young adults.\u201d After asking \u201c15 study participants, with an average age of 27, to drink either four or five shots of vodka depending on their weight \u2013 enough to exceed a blood alcohol content of .08,\u201d researchers found after administering blood tests 20 minutes later that immune activity in the participants had spiked. Two and five hours later, however, blood tests showed that participants\u2019 \u201cimmune system activity returned to a level lower than when\u201d they were still sober.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Huffington Post reports on ta study of young adults\u0027 immune systems."}],"uid":"30687","created_gmt":"2016-05-24 11:53:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:21:46","author":"Nathaniel Barnwell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-12-31T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-12-31T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"542121":{"id":"542121","type":"image","title":"Stamps placeholder image","body":null,"created":"1465333200","gmt_created":"2016-06-07 21:00:00","changed":"1475895329","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:29","alt":"Stamps placeholder image","file":{"fid":"90679","name":"logo_gt_shs.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/logo_gt_shs.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/logo_gt_shs.png","mime":"image\/png","size":29036,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/logo_gt_shs.png?itok=e75JTDvr"}}},"media_ids":["542121"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/mailview.bulletinhealthcare.com\/mailview.aspx?l=045-407\u0026m=2014123101ama\u0026r=6127647-b5c6\u0026t=c","title":"Huffington Post"}],"groups":[{"id":"428961","name":"Health and Well-Being"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"172060","name":"health blog"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}