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Talking to Your Healthcare Professional About ALTACE

Talking to Your Healthcare Professional About ALTACE®

Take a second and think about the people who care about you. You know they are counting on you to stay healthy for quite a while.

3 Steps to Reducing Your Cardiovascular Risk

STEP 1: Share Your Cardiovascular Risk Profile With Your Healthcare Professional

Your healthcare professional needs to know about your risk factors, including your blood pressure, cholesterol levels, and family history of cardiovascular disease.3 To help your healthcare professional, bring in your results from the Heart Care Test.

Your healthcare professional should note your3

  • Age
  • Sex

Your healthcare professional should measure your3

  • Weight
  • Blood pressure
  • Cholesterol levels
  • Blood sugars

Your healthcare professional should ask about3

  • What you eat
  • What exercise you get
  • Whether you smoke cigarettes
  • Your personal health history
  • Your family health history

STEP 2: Ask Your Healthcare Professional About ALTACE®

Ask whether ALTACE® could help to reduce your risk of having a heart attack or stroke.

Ask about the HOPE study, where ALTACE was proven to significantly reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke in people aged 55 or older who had the following risk factors29:

  • Diabetes plus 1 other cardiovascular risk factor, including:
    • High total cholesterol
    • Low HDL (good) cholesterol
    • High blood pressure
    • A cigarette smoking habit
    • Microalbuminuria (a sign of kidney disease in which albumin, an essential protein made in the liver, is present in the urine)
  • Or heart disease, stroke, or peripheral vascular disease

STEP 3: Make a Decision to Partner With Your Healthcare Professional

  • Work together to change your risk factors like high blood pressure, weight, and the amount of exercise you get3
  • Discuss whether ALTACE can offer you additional risk reduction
People Stay Healthier With Support

Stay On Course With ALTACE®

Fact #1: Some people decide on their own that they can stop taking their blood pressure medicine. Fact #2: You are smarter than that. You are determined to stay on your ALTACE® therapy. ALTACE® On Course is determined to help. It is free, so get On Course.


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Important Safety Information

Do not take ALTACE® during pregnancy, as death or injury to your unborn child may result. Do not take ALTACE® if you have experienced serious side effects related to previous ACE inhibitors.

Common side effects include persistent dry cough, dizziness, and light-headedness due to low blood pressure. Prescription ALTACE® is not for everyone. ALTACE® may cause swelling of the mouth, tongue, or throat, which could cause extremely serious risk and requires immediate medical care. There have been rare reports of low blood sugar in patients taking ALTACE® with medicine for diabetes. Please contact your healthcare professional if you have symptoms of low blood sugar such as sweating or shakiness.

Do NOT take ALTACE® if you are allergic to ALTACE® or other ACE inhibitors.

If you experience side effects that you think may be associated with ALTACE®, talk to your healthcare professional. DO NOT discontinue taking prescribed medication without letting your healthcare professional know.

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