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

摘要

At a global level, cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of mortality, claiming almost 18 million lives annually. Throughout the last decade, this CVD burden is still increasing both in terms of deaths and disability-adjusted life years. Age-standardized death and DALY rates however are decreasing, which points to the fact that population ageing plays an important role in the evolution of the CVD rates and will continue to do so in the future ( , ).