	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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High Blood Pressure and Your Heart*

You may not feel the effects of high blood pressure, but it can still be damaging to your heart.

Heart attack
Heart failure
Stroke
Hardening of the arteries
Kidney failure
Blindness

Be sure to work with your doctor to make a plan to lower your blood pressure. This plan may include medicine and lifestyle changes.

*COREG CR is not indicated to treat all of the effects or consequences of high blood pressure, including stroke.

Taking medicine to lower your high blood pressure

Your doctor may prescribe medicine to help lower your high blood pressure. COREG CR is a medicine you take once a day. It works to lower high blood pressure by:

Helping the heart beat more slowly and with less force. This helps put less strain on the heart
Causing blood vessels to relax. This means there is less resistance, which helps blood to flow throughout the body

You may also be taking medicine for other conditions, such as diabetes or high cholesterol. The good news is that, in people with type 2 diabetes, COREG CR is less likely to affect HbA_1c, cholesterol, or weight.^†

^†If you have diabetes, tell your doctor if you have changes in your blood sugar levels. COREG CR should be used with caution in people with diabetes as beta-blockers may mask some of the symptoms of low blood sugar, especially a fast heartbeat and may affect blood sugar levels.

Changing your lifestyle to help your heart

Your doctor may suggest lifestyle changes to help control your high blood pressure.

These changes may include:

Eating a healthier diet. Try cutting back on fatty foods, using herbs and spices instead of salt, and eating more fruits, vegetables, and low-fat dairy products
Exercising. Try to get at least 30 minutes of exercise each day. You can do 10 minutes in the morning, 10 minutes during your lunch break, and 10 minutes after dinner
Drinking less 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
Quitting smoking. Smoking causes damage to your heart
Losing weight. Losing as little as 10 pounds can help lower your blood pressure and help control your blood sugar

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).