Furthermore, after excluding two patients with diagnosed significant pathology of the circulatory system (dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) and arrhythmogenic right ventricular radiomyopathy (ARVC)) from our cohort, a statistically significant (p = 0.009) difference of galectin-3 plasma concentration in the study and control group was still observed (Table S2). Here, LGALS3 is linked to dilated cardiomyopathy.