if you find that the vessels are all blocked up you can imagine the prognosis is not as good but sometimes you can deal with that get the vessels cleaned up and usually the heart conditions can be dealt with pretty well so that if somebody's stroke came from the heart typically we can find ways to prevent it from happening again okay so lots of stroke is caused by atherosclerosis atherosclerosis affects the vessels in the heart in a similar way to the vessels in the neck and the brain so no surprise how to prevent them right