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Composite adverse maternal outcomes included severe complication, intensive\u2010care admission, or transfusion; composite adverse perinatal outcomes included growth restriction, stillbirth, neonatal death, neonatal\u2010unit admission, or 5\u2010min Apgar below 7. BAR was benchmarked against six other ratios: uric acid\/albumin ratio (UAR), lactate dehydrogenase\/albumin ratio (LAR), C\u2010reactive protein\/albumin ratio (CAR), fibrinogen\/CRP ratio, fibrinogen\/albumin ratio (FAR), and aspartate aminotransferase\/alanine aminotransferase (AST\/ALT) ratio (De Ritis) by ROC analysis. Independent predictors were sought through multivariable logistic regression.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Patients in the high\u2010BAR stratum showed substantially higher rates of composite adverse obstetric outcome (78.6% vs. 54.1%;\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009&lt;\u20090.001), composite adverse maternal outcome (28.2% vs. 6.7%;\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009&lt;\u20090.001), maternal intensive\u2010care admission (16.2% vs. 3.7%;\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u20090.001), and transfusion (12.0% vs. 2.2%;\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u20090.002). BAR yielded the most balanced discrimination across endpoints, with AUCs of 0.68 (95% CI: 0.61\u20130.75) for the obstetric composite, 0.74 (95% CI: 0.65\u20130.83) for the maternal composite, and 0.66 (95% CI: 0.59\u20130.73) for the perinatal composite (all\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009&lt;\u20090.01); fibrinogen\/albumin and AST\/ALT ratios were not predictive. BAR did not differ significantly from UAR or LAR by DeLong test (all\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009&gt;\u20090.05) and retained independent association with adverse perinatal outcome after adjustment (adjusted OR 1.32; 95% CI: 1.03\u20131.70;\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u20090.03). Sensitivity analyses showed that UAR retained independent significance for all three composite endpoints, positioning BAR and UAR as complementary bedside markers.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>An elevated admission BAR identifies preeclamptic women at higher risk of severe maternal and perinatal events, with performance comparable to that of UAR. Both BAR and UAR may serve as simple complementary bedside adjuncts to existing risk stratification tools in preeclampsia.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1111\/jog.70518","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,9]],"date-time":"2026-10-09T14:10:07Z","timestamp":1791555007000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["<scp>BUN<\/scp>\n                    \/Albumin Ratio in Preeclampsia: A Comparative Study of Seven Biomarker Ratios"],"prefix":"10.1111","volume":"52","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6894-8936","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Neslihan","family":"Bademler","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Prof. Dr. Cemil Ta\u015fc\u0131o\u011flu City Hospital University of Health Sciences  \u0130stanbul Turkey"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6758-1127","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sena","family":"Sayan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Prof. Dr. Cemil Ta\u015fc\u0131o\u011flu City Hospital University of Health Sciences  \u0130stanbul Turkey"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1433-6942","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hale \u00d6zer","family":"\u00c7altek","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Perinatology Clinic, Ba\u015fak\u015fehir \u00c7am ve Sakura City Hospital University of Health Sciences  \u0130stanbul Turkey"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0001-9903-2808","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Emine Y\u0131lmaz","family":"G\u00fcler","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Haseki Training and Research Hospital University of Health Sciences  \u0130stanbul Turkey"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8701-8462","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Veli","family":"Mihmanl\u0131","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Prof. Dr. Cemil Ta\u015fc\u0131o\u011flu City Hospital University of Health Sciences  \u0130stanbul Turkey"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,9]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_13_2_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1161\/HYPERTENSIONAHA.117.10803"},{"key":"e_1_2_13_3_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/S0140-6736(10)60279-6"},{"key":"e_1_2_13_4_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ejogrb.2013.05.005"},{"key":"e_1_2_13_5_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/S2214-109X(14)70227-X"},{"key":"e_1_2_13_6_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1038\/s41581-019-0119-6"},{"key":"e_1_2_13_7_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/S0140-6736(10)61351-7"},{"key":"e_1_2_13_8_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1056\/NEJMoa1414838"},{"key":"e_1_2_13_9_1","first-page":"1545","article-title":"Comparison of the Prognostic Value of the Serum BUN\/Albumin Ratio and Other Risk Classification Tools in Patients With Sepsis","volume":"37","author":"Ryu S.","year":"2019","journal-title":"American Journal of Emergency Medicine"},{"key":"e_1_2_13_10_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.2147\/IJGM.S33628"},{"key":"e_1_2_13_11_1","article-title":"Predictive Performance of Blood Urea Nitrogen to Serum Albumin Ratio in Adult Patients With Sepsis at the Emergency Department","volume":"13","author":"Bae S. 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