LGALS3 and congestive heart failure: Spearman correlation analysis showed that the effectiveness of treatment of patients with acute attack of CHF was positively correlated with galectin-3, RDW, Hepc, and HS (r = 0.217, 0.109, 0.376, 0.765, P = 0.026, 0.032, 0.021, 0.006), and negatively correlated with ferritin (r = − 0.127, P = 0.037).