This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy.This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief and Author.A concerned reader in August 2015 noted that despite the authors indicating the median Galectin-3 concentration was used as the cutpoint for the analyses, the data in Table 2 suggests that there was an error in group assignment. Additional concerns were raised which prompted an independent review by an expert in the field, the Editor-in-Chief, and an independent statistical review on the dataset provided by the corresponding author.Errors in the original dataset were identified; and the independent statistical analyses on the corrected dataset obtained similar (not exact) findings to those provided by the corresponding author. Importantly, the main findings that Galectin-3 was significant for predicting cardiac mortality and all-cause mortality in this patient population was upheld.However, based on all the communications between the corresponding author and Editor-in-Chief, independent and statistical reviews, there is sufficient evidence to indicate that the published paper findings and study dataset used in the original and subsequent analyses are unreliable; most likely a result of an unfortunate honest error (e.g., miscalculation) during the database construction and analyses. Therefore, the authors and the Editor-in-Chief have requested the Retraction of this article and apologize to the readers of the journal for any confusion this article may have caused.