CST3 and heart failure: In the Kaplan-Meier analysis, the incidence of MACEs (Log-rank = 18.864, P < 0.001), cardiac death (Log-rank = 7.286, P = 0.007), TVR (Log-rank = 5.103, P = 0.024), and heart failure (Log-rank = 5.167, P = 0.023) was higher in the high cystatin C group than that in the low cystatin C group.