LGALS3 and coronary artery disorder: In patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), Maiolino et al. found that patients with Gal-3 levels in the highest tertile were more prone to death due to cardiovascular causes (25.2%) than those with Gal-3 levels in the intermediate and lower tertiles (13.6% and 7.5%, respectively; P < 0.001), and the plasma Gal-3 cutoff value for cardiovascular death prediction was 27.7 ng/mL [105].