One thing we do for treatment is to assess those risk factors and minimize them.

What's changed over the last few years is the risk of the treatment has gone down, down, down and down, so that now we're comfortable fixing almost every heart defect pretty much right after birth.

Our study found that aspirin treatment was associated with a 24 percent reduction in the risk of the most common type of stroke in women and a 32 percent reduction in heart attacks in men.

If they say yes, I'll ask, ?How's that working for you?' You don't have to nag them.

Usually there's some of the brain tissue that they're not going to get back but some vulnerable brain around the stroke that is salvageable.

There are good treatments options. We can make a difference.