Teenagers Damage DNA After Weekend Binge Drinking, Say Researchers UniversityHerald
go to original December 31, 2013

Teenagers indulging in weekend binge drinking are at a risk of damaging their DNA, a recent study reveals.

Researchers at the University of Basque Country in Spain and the Autonomous University of Nayarit in Mexico studied the effects of alcohol on students.

The authors decided to conduct this study after researcher Adela Rendón noticed that students at Clinical Biochemistry at the National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico, did not pay much attention in class and seemed to be distracted on Mondays.

The researchers divided the students into a drinking group and a control group that did not consume alcohol at all. The students were aged between 18 and 23 and their average consumption of alcohol was 118g, which is equivalent to a litre and a half of beer.

"We saw that the ones who drank (alcohol) sustained twice as much oxidative damage compared with the group that did not consume alcohol," researchers said in a press release.

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