	What Is COREG CR?
	Risks & Side Effects
	COREG CR for High Blood Pressure
	Taking Care of Your Heart

Eating Well

Exercise

Reducing Stress

Stop Smoking

	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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Reducing Stress

Being told you have high blood pressure, heart failure, or that you have had a heart attack that reduced how well your heart pumps may have made you feel sad, angry, or scared. You may feel stressed about the lifestyle changes you have been asked to make, or at the possibility that your heart problem will get worse. Stress itself can also damage your heart.

Stress causes your body to release hormones, such as adrenaline. While adrenaline and other hormones can give you extra energy, they also raise your blood pressure and heart rate. If you feel stressed or tense often, your heart and other parts of your body are under constant strain. Over time, this strain raises your chance of heart disease, stomach problems, being overweight, and other illnesses.

Together with COREG CR, a healthy diet, regular exercise, and reduced stress can improve your heart health. Relaxing may also actually help your heart condition. When you are relaxed, your blood pressure may go down, which lowers the strain on your heart.

Heart Disease Tips to Reduce Stress

We all have different ways of relaxing. It is important to find what works for you.

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).