want to have them evaluated very rapidly if they have the symptoms of a stroke but they disappeared so what are we going to do well if you control the blood pressure you're going to reduce your stroke risk by up to 40% that's huge absolutely huge to reduce stroke risk by 40% so if you're somebody at high risk of stroke 10% per year you could reduce it down to 6% per year just by getting the blood pressure under control smoking is amazing that people who've been smoking even they've smoked for many years if they stop they can cut