Drug Compliance and Quality of Life in Patients With Heart Failure Dosed With Either Once-daily or Twice-daily Coreg

Overview

The purpose of this study is to compare dosing compliance between study patients taking controlled release carvedilol once a day, and study patients taking immediate release carvedilol (Coreg) twice a day.

Study Further Study Details: Primary outcome: pill-taking compliance (total doses taken versus total doses prescribed) Expected Total Enrollment: 400 subjects at 56 study sites in the U.S. Study Start: October 2005 This is a 5-month double-blind treatment study of male and female subjects with stable mild-to-severe chronic heart failure and with left ventricular dysfunction with symptoms of heart failure. Eligibility: Must be stable on treatment with Coreg IR at a standard dose: 6.25, 12.5, 25 mg twice a day.

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