	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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Understanding High Blood Pressure

Having high blood pressure means that the force of the blood inside your blood vessels is too high. This may harm your blood vessels. High blood pressure also causes your heart to work harder than normal to pump blood throughout your body.

Why is it important to treat high blood pressure?

High blood pressure is often called the “silent killer,” because it has no symptoms. If left untreated, high blood pressure can put extra strain on your blood vessels and heart. Over time, this can cause heart attack, stroke, and heart failure. The good news is that treating high blood pressure today may help prevent these problems in the future.

Know your goal

Your blood pressure goal is made up of 2 numbers, such as 120/80. Your doctor or nurse may say these numbers as "one twenty over eighty." Ask your doctor about your blood pressure goal and how to check your blood pressure. Checking your blood pressure often will help you stay on track with treatment so you can reach your goal.

Understanding and Lowering High Blood Pressure

How COREG CR can help you reach your blood pressure goal

COREG CR is a medicine that is proven to lower high blood pressure. Lowering your high blood pressure may help prevent a heart attack and stroke.* Studies have shown that COREG CR lowers high blood pressure by helping the heart to beat more slowly and the blood vessels to relax. This means there is less resistance, which helps blood to flow throughout the body.

Lowering your blood pressure may be only one of your health goals. If you have type 2 diabetes or high cholesterol, you may be working hard to meet other health goals. It can help you to know that, in people with type 2 diabetes, COREG CR treats high blood pressure and is less likely to affect: ^†

HbA_1c (a measure of average blood sugar control over the last 2 to 3 months)
Cholesterol levels
Weight

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

^† 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.

Lowering High Blood Pressure can Help Prevent Heart Attack, Stroke, and Heart Failure

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).