LGALS3, galectin 3, 3958

N. diseases: 557; N. variants: 15
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0018801
Disease: Heart failure
Heart failure
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE Available experimental evidence suggests that galectin-3 inhibition indeed may represent a novel tool to treat heart failure. 24789662 2014
CUI: C0018801
Disease: Heart failure
Heart failure
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE Cardiac (NT-proBNP, cTnI, sST2,Gal-3) and inflammatory (IL-6,IL-8) biomarkers were determined in plasma collected from 12 paediatric patients and 7 adult patients with HF, before and at 4 h,1,3,7,14 and 30 days after VAD implant. 30040920 2018
CUI: C0018801
Disease: Heart failure
Heart failure
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE Change in Gal-3 was associated with future HF (hazard ratio [HR]: 1.39 per 1-SD increase; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.13 to 1.71), CVD (HR: 1.29; 95% CI: 1.11 to 1.51), and all-cause mortality (HR: 1.30; 95% CI: 1.17 to 1.46). 30573026 2018
CUI: C0018801
Disease: Heart failure
Heart failure
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE Circulating galectin-3 (Gal-3) is elevated and significantly correlates with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in patients with heart failure. 30477951 2019
CUI: C0018801
Disease: Heart failure
Heart failure
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE Correction to: The potential prognostic utility of salivary galectin-3 concentrations in heart failure. 31823039 2019
CUI: C0018801
Disease: Heart failure
Heart failure
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE CT-1 (cardiotrophin-1) and Gal-3 (galectin-3) are increased in HF and associated with myocardial fibrosis. 30612490 2019
CUI: C0018801
Disease: Heart failure
Heart failure
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE Elevated galectin-3 has been associated with atherosclerosis and poor outcomes in patients with heart failure. 29229724 2018
CUI: C0018801
Disease: Heart failure
Heart failure
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE Elevated plasma galectin-3 levels, a biomarker associated with myocardial fibrosis, are also associated with adverse cardiovascular events, including heart failure. 30721387 2019
CUI: C0018801
Disease: Heart failure
Heart failure
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE Experimental research has shown that galectin-3 directly induces pathologic remodeling of the heart, and is therefore considered a culprit protein in the development of cardiac fibrosis in HF, with potentially relevant clinical implications. 29153203 2018
CUI: C0018801
Disease: Heart failure
Heart failure
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE Finally, elevated natriuretic peptides, ST2, endothelin-1, mid-regional-pro-adrenomedullin, copeptin, and galectin-3 have all been well validated to predict death and heart failure following a MI and provide risk stratification information for heart failure. 28491088 2017
CUI: C0018801
Disease: Heart failure
Heart failure
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE Following the recommendation of natriuretic peptides (B-type natriuretic peptide and N-terminal-proBNP), many other biomarkers have been thoroughly studied to reflect different pathophysiological processes (such as fibrosis, inflammation, myocardial injury, and remodeling) in HF and some of them (like cardiac troponins, soluble suppression of tumorigenesis-2, and galectin 3) have subsequently been recommended to aid in the diagnosis and prognostication in HF. 31183637 2019
CUI: C0018801
Disease: Heart failure
Heart failure
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE Furthermore, ROC curve analysis suggested galectin-3 as a promising biomarker for diagnosis and HF and clinical severity. 31514240 2019
CUI: C0018801
Disease: Heart failure
Heart failure
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE However, CK-MB, sST2, and Gal-3 exhibited a modest diagnostic performance for HF, with an AUC of 0.709, 0.711, and 0.777, respectively. 30829708 2019
CUI: C0018801
Disease: Heart failure
Heart failure
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE However, inhibition of galectin‑3 by intravenous tail vein injection of a galectin‑3‑targeting short hairpin RNA‑expressing vector during hypertension‑induced heart failure in Dahl hypertensive rats increased rat survival and body weight. 29286090 2018
CUI: C0018801
Disease: Heart failure
Heart failure
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE However, only Gal-3 was the independent predictor of HF development at one-year observation. 31687050 2019
CUI: C0018801
Disease: Heart failure
Heart failure
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE In conclusion, α1-antitrypsin and lectin-like oxidized low-density-lipoprotein receptor-1 seem to represent two good markers in HF and therapeutic targets, whereas galectin-3 does not. 31782085 2020
CUI: C0018801
Disease: Heart failure
Heart failure
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE In this review, we summarize recent progress in research on galectin-3 as a regulatory molecule involved in cardiovascular fibrosis in HF and its potential role in the diagnosis, risk assessment and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. 30372548 2019
CUI: C0018801
Disease: Heart failure
Heart failure
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE Increased galectin-3 plasma concentration has been linked to an unfavorable outcome in patients with heart failure or atrial fibrillation (AF). 29118378 2017
CUI: C0018801
Disease: Heart failure
Heart failure
0.300 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Mechanisms responsible for increased circulating levels of galectin-3 in cardiomyopathy and heart failure. 29844319 2018
CUI: C0018801
Disease: Heart failure
Heart failure
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE Multivariable Cox proportional hazards models, adjusted for AF risk factors plus incident heart failure (HF) and coronary heart disease (CHD), were used to estimate hazard ratios for the association between galectin-3 and incident AF. 28938960 2017
CUI: C0018801
Disease: Heart failure
Heart failure
0.300 Biomarker disease RGD Myocardial biopsies obtained at an early stage of hypertrophy before apparent HF showed that expression of galectin-3 was increased specifically in the rats that later rapidly developed HF. 15520318 2004
CUI: C0018801
Disease: Heart failure
Heart failure
0.300 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Myocardial biopsies obtained at an early stage of hypertrophy before apparent HF showed that expression of galectin-3 was increased specifically in the rats that later rapidly developed HF. 15520318 2004
CUI: C0018801
Disease: Heart failure
Heart failure
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE Next-generation biomarkers including soluble source of tumorigenicity 2 (sST2), growth differentiation factor-15 (GDF-15), galectin-3 (Gal-3) and diverse microribonucleic acids (miRNAs) may have additional benefit in assessment of cardiac remodeling or differentiation of HF subtypes. 29682806 2018
CUI: C0018801
Disease: Heart failure
Heart failure
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE Recent clinical studies have shown that galectin-3 is a prognostic indicator in patients with coronary heart disease and in patients with heart failure. 30378236 2019
CUI: C0018801
Disease: Heart failure
Heart failure
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE Salivary Gal-3 concentrations were significantly higher (p < 0.05) in patients with HF who subsequently experienced the primary endpoint compared to those who did not. 31598750 2019