When a heart condition causes chest pain attacks during the night, a small tilt of the bed may help. Israeli physicians, working with ten patients experiencing as many as seven attacks per night, prescribed elevating the head of the bed by about ten degrees (blocks can be used) so that their feet were in a down position while they rested in a relatively flat position, head comfortably on a pillow. Eight of the patients experienced no further episodes; the other two had only one attack per night each.
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