In a study that included patients within the first two weeks of an acute myocardial infarction, with a reduced LVEF < 40%, evaluated by echocardiography, but without signs of heart failure, a significant correlation between galectin-3 plasma concentration and LVEF, left ventricular end-diastolic and end-systolic volume indices determined using cardiac magnetic resonance during the baseline hospitalization, was not demonstrated20. This evidence concerns the gene LGALS3 and acute myocardial infarction.