Disclosure

We read with great interest the article by Johansen It is well known that multimodal surgical prehabilitation, including exercise, nutrition, smoking/alcohol cessation, and psychological counselling, improves postoperative outcomes as well as long-term QoLA key result of the present study is demonstrating that patients within the MIDP arm had similar scores in several QoL domains at 2 years, compared with a matched Swedish general population. One of the important confounders in QoL analysis is socioeconomic factors, such as education level, income status etc. A recent Swedish study identified that lower socioeconomical and professional status is associated with poorer postoperative health-related QoLIn conclusion, Johansen The authors declare no conflict of interest.