Cost of cardiovascular disease prevention: towards economic evaluations in prevention programs

Public Health Unit, ACES Grande Porto VIII – Espinho/Gaia, ARS Norte, Portugal; MEDCIDS – Department of Community Medicine, Information and Health Decision Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Portugal; CINTESIS – Centre for Health Technology and Services Research, Portugal; Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Belgium Correspondence to: João Vasco Santos. Public Health Unit, AceS Grande Porto VIII – Espinho/Gaia, ARS Norte, Rua Dr. Plácido da Costa, 4200-450 Porto, Portugal. Email: jvasco.santos@gmail.com. Provenance and Peer Review: This article was commissioned by the Editorial Office, Annals of Translational Medicine. The article did not undergo external peer review. Comment on: Shaw LJ, Goyal A, Mehta C, et al. 10-Year Resource Utilization and Costs for Cardiovascular Care. J Am Coll Cardiol 2018;71:1078-89.