LGALS3 and myocardial infarction: In this work, we proved for the first time, in a large, unselected, consecutive, real world population of patients with myocardial infarction, that the dosage of Galectin 3 and Galectin 3 binding protein, within the first 24 h after the acute event, could help to better stratify patients’ risk and to provide additional and integrated information about the probability of distinct events.