Contact: Toni Baker
tbaker@mcg.edu
706-721-4421
Georgia Health Sciences University

Dr. Frank Treiber, Medical College of Georgia

Caption: Dr. Frank Treiber, MCG's vice president for research, has been studying how environmental stress contributes to cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes by following 523 pairs of twins since 1997. Researchers have long thought that environmental stress factors -- things like family dysfunction, low socioeconomic status and discrimination -- play an important role in cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes, but little is known about physiological factors that link stress to the diseases' development.

Credit: Medical College of Georgia

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