Multiple studies (Yilmaz et al. 2015; Mensah-Brown et al. 2009; Li et al. 2016; Pejnovic et al. 2013; Darrow and Shohet 2015) have reported a strong association between hyperglycemia and Gal-3 levels [56,57,58,59,60,61]. Here, LGALS3 is linked to Hyperglycemia.