LGALS3 and heart disorder: In addition to heart disease, Gal-3 has also been considered as a biomarker in other human diseases, such as viral infections [18,19,20], autoimmune diseases [21,22,23,24], diabetes [25,26,27], kidney disease [25,26,28,29] and even tumor formations, including thyroid tumors [30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39].