C1QTNF3 and heart failure: CTRP3 levels also decrease in patients with stable angina pectoris (Choi et al., 2014), acute coronary syndrome, acute aortic dissection (Jiang et al., 2018), and heart failure either with reduced ejection fraction (Gao et al., 2019) or with preserved ejection fraction (Liu et al., 2018) compared with control subjects.