In addition to AMI, elevated hs-cTnT was observed in other cardiac diseases, such as myocarditis, VHD, CHD, heart failure, cardiomyopathy, and arrhythmias, as well as in non-cardiac diseases, including sepsis, urological disease, rheumatic disease, respiratory disease, endocrine disease, neurological disease, digestive disease, hematological disease, peripheral arterial disease, and cancer. This evidence concerns the gene TNNT2 and heart failure.