Persistently high levels of Gal-3 were associated with significantly
higher risk of incident HF (A), incident CVD (B), and all-cause mortality (C).
High-high, low-high, high-low, and low-low represent classes of change in Gal-3
between the earlier exam and the later exam using the clinical cut-off of 17.8
ng/ml. CVD = cardiovascular disease, HF = heart failure.