	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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COREG CR for High Blood Pressure

COREG CR and lifestyle changes can help lower your high blood pressure. Studies have shown that COREG CR works to lower high blood pressure by:

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

*The way in which beta-blockade lowers blood pressure is unknown.

High blood pressure, or hypertension, is called the “silent killer,” because it often may not have symptoms. You may feel fine, but high blood pressure can still be damaging to your heart. That is why it is so important to treat and control high blood pressure today.

Did you know that:

Lowering your high blood pressure may help reduce your risk for heart attack and stroke? ^†
Eating a healthy diet and exercising may help to lower your blood pressure and may help you manage other conditions, such as diabetes?

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

What can I do to help control my high blood pressure?

Making lifestyle changes—such as being active, losing weight, and eating heart-healthy foods—can help lower your high blood pressure. These changes can also help you control diabetes and high cholesterol. But lifestyle changes alone may not be enough to control high blood pressure. Some people with high blood pressure may also need to take medicine.

COREG CR can help lower your high blood pressure and is less likely to affect HbA_1c, cholesterol, or weight in people with type 2 diabetes. HbA_1c is a test used to measure average blood sugar control over the last 2 to 3 months.^‡

^‡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.

High Blood Pressure Affects Both Men and Women

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).