	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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Taking Care of Your Heart

Your heart is an important muscle in your body. Its job is to pump blood and oxygen to all the organs in your body. That is why keeping your heart strong and healthy is so important.

Keeping your heart healthy

To help keep your heart healthy, your doctor may suggest that you take medicine, such as COREG CR. He or she may also suggest you make lifestyle changes, such as eating well, getting exercise, and reducing stress. COREG CR is proven to:

Help lower your high blood pressure
Help lower your risk for having another heart attack if you have had a heart attack that reduced how well your heart pumps
Help you live longer and stay out of the hospital if you have heart failure

Also, in people with type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure, 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.

Learn more about high blood pressure

High blood pressure is often called the “silent killer,” because it has no symptoms. The only way to know if you have high blood pressure is to have your blood pressure checked often
If left untreated, high blood pressure can lead to heart attack, stroke, heart failure, and kidney failure^†
Making lifestyle changes, such as eating a healthy diet, losing weight, and being active, can help lower your high blood pressure. These changes can also help you lower your cholesterol

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

Learn more about a heart attack that reduced how well your heart pumps

A heart attack happens when the blood flow to a part of the heart is blocked. This causes the muscle cells to die because they are not getting the oxygen they need
Some of the steps you may take to lower your blood pressure, such as losing weight, stopping smoking, and eating a healthy diet, can also help prevent a heart attack

Learn more about heart failure

Heart failure happens when the heart is too weak to pump blood throughout the body
Other conditions, such as heart attack or high blood pressure, can weaken the heart
COREG CR is a type of medicine called a beta-blocker that helps the weakened heart to better pump blood throughout the body

Remember that the information on this Web site is meant to be in addition to the information that you receive from your doctor. It is not meant to replace it or to provide medical advice. Your doctor should always be your main source of information about your condition and how to manage it.

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).