Pre-existing HF. A meta-analysis to investigate cardiac biomarkers in COVID-19 revealed several of them (cTnI, cTnT, hs-cTn, hs-cTnI, hs-cTnT, MB, CK-MB) to be directly associated to worse prognosis of COVID-19 [534]. The gene discussed is TNNT2; the disease is COVID-19.