	What Is COREG CR?
	Risks & Side Effects
	COREG CR for High Blood Pressure

Understanding High Blood Pressure

High Blood Pressure and Your Heart

Assessing Your Risk

High Blood Pressure and Diabetes

High Blood Pressure and High Cholesterol

Talking with Your Doctor

	Taking Care of Your Heart
	Heart-Health Tools
	COREG CR for a Heart Attack that Reduced How Well Your Heart Pumps
	COREG CR for Heart Failure
	Staying On Track with Treatment

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Assessing Your Risk

High blood pressure causes your heart to work too hard and may damage your blood vessels. Risk factors are behaviors or traits that increase your chances of having a certain disease or health condition. Learn more about the factors that put you at risk for high blood pressure and what you can do to manage them. The more risk factors you have, the greater your chance of having high blood pressure.

Risk factors you can control

There are risk factors for high blood pressure that you can control. Talk with your doctor about making a plan now to lower your blood pressure. This may also help lower your risk for heart attack and stroke. Risk factors you can control include:

Being overweight: Losing as little as 10 pounds can help lower your blood pressure and your blood sugar levels
Eating too much salt: Try using herbs and spices instead of salt and cutting back on canned foods. Learn other tips for eating well
Drinking too much alcohol: Limiting yourself to 1 drink a day if you are a woman or lighter-weight individual, or 2 drinks a day for most men, can help
Not being physically active: Try to do an activity for 30 minutes a day that raises your heart rate. You may want to be active for 10 minutes 3 times a day. Learn ways to exercise and raise your heart rate
Smoking: Quitting is hard, but there are many tips to help you stop smoking
Diabetes: Many of the steps you take to control your high blood pressure—such as exercising, eating well, and losing weight—can also help control your diabetes
Stress: Lowering stress can help lower your blood pressure. Learn more about reducing stress

Risk factors you cannot control

There are risk factors for high blood pressure that you cannot control. Being aware of these factors may motivate you to manage the risk factors you can control. Risk factors you cannot control include:

Race. Blacks are more likely than whites to have high blood pressure
Family history. You are more likely to have high blood pressure if your parents or other close relatives have it
Age. Men between 35 and 55 years of age and postmenopausal women have a higher risk for having high blood pressure

Talk with your doctor about how you can lower your high blood pressure and your risk of complications from high blood pressure.

See Important Safety Information below

The information on this Web site is designed to supplement the information provided by your doctor; it is not meant to replace it. This information is not meant to provide medical advice. Your doctor should always be your main source of information about your condition and how to manage it.

COREG CR is approved for the treatment of hypertension, which is also known as high blood pressure.

COREG CR is approved to reduce the risk of death in patients who had a heart attack that reduced how well the heart pumps.

COREG CR is approved to increase survival in patients with mild to severe heart failure.

Important Safety Information

It is important for patients to take their medicine every day as directed by their doctor or health care provider. If patients stop taking COREG CR suddenly, they could have chest pain and/or a heart attack. If the doctor decides that a patient should stop taking COREG CR, the doctor may slowly lower the dose over a period of time before stopping it completely.

Some common side effects associated with COREG CR include shortness of breath, a slow heartbeat, weight gain, fatigue, hypotension, diarrhea, increases in blood sugar, dizziness, faintness, or runny nose/sore throat. People taking COREG CR who have any of these symptoms should call their doctor. Additionally, if patients experience fatigue or dizziness, they should sit or lie down and avoid driving or hazardous tasks. Beta-blockers may mask the symptoms of an overactive thyroid or low blood sugar, or may alter blood sugar levels. People with diabetes should report any changes in blood sugar levels to their physician. Contact lens wearers may produce fewer tears or have dry eyes. As with any medicine, patients taking COREG CR should first tell their doctor what other medications they are taking. COREG CR should be taken with food.

Some people should not take COREG CR, including those with severe heart failure who are in the intensive care unit (ICU) in the hospital. Also, people should not take COREG CR if they take certain intravenous drugs that help support their circulation (inotropic medications). Other people who should not take COREG CR are those who have (1) asthma or other breathing problems, or (2) a very slow heartbeat or certain conditions that can cause the heart to skip a beat (irregular heartbeat), (3) severe liver problems, or (4) serious allergic reactions to Coreg^® (carvedilol).