NPPB and obesity disorder: In univariate logistic regression analysis, among the many tested factors(including age, sex, obesity, new-onset AF, diabetes, ejection fraction,NT-proBNP and MR-proANP), only galectin3 collected on admission was found to besignificant predictor of late MACE (p = 0.0297; Table 3); this wasconfirmed by stepwise forward logistic regression analysis (p = 0.0297;Table 3).