Conclusion:Pre-treatment HRQOL appears to be associated with postoperative complications in patients undergoing lung cancer resection. Pre-operative HRQOL assessments could be used to identify patients who are at higher risk for complications, thereby facilitating targeted interventions to improve perioperative outcomes. Specifically, interventions that target pain/discomfort pre-emptively may be beneficial. The effect of these interventions could be tracked by longitudinal HRQOL.

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Sports competition can be a trigger to fatal arrhythmias in predisposed individuals, leading to sudden cardiac death. Athletes have 2.8 fold more risk of sudden cardiac death than non-athletes. However, female athletes seem to have some cardiac protection, dying suddenly much less than men during sports. Although the mechanisms for this protection have not been well established until now, hormonal, genetic and molecular factors may play a role in it. The so-called "fair sex" might harbour the key for sudden cardiac death prevention.