Dr. Frank Treiber, Medical College of Georgia (IMAGE)

Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University

Dr. Frank Treiber, Medical College of Georgia

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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.

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