MALAT1 and cancer: Metastasis-associated lung adenocarcinoma transcript 1, also known as MALAT1, mainly associated with cancer, has shown significant expression in endothelial cells and cardiomyocytes in response to CVD risk factors (Zeng et al., 2018; Zhao et al., 2016; Wang and Zhou, 2018) and was intimately connected with the pathophysiological processes of CVD including autophagy, apoptosis and pyroptosis (Zhao et al., 2017; Song et al., 2018; Tang et al., 2015).