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However, studies on its association with in-hospital prognosis in patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) remain limited. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the relationship between BAR and in-hospital mortality in patients with NSTEMI.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>This study included 772 non-diabetic NSTEMI patients. The predictive performance was assessed using the area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve (AUC). Multivariable logistic regression was performed to identify the independent risk factors of in-hospital mortality. Subgroup analyses were conducted to evaluate the association between BAR and in-hospital mortality across different patient subgroups. Restricted cubic spline (RCS) function was applied to examine the nonlinear relationship between BAR and in-hospital mortality, and the two-piecewise logistic regression model was used for threshold effects analysis.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>A total of 40 patients died during hospitalization. BAR exhibited strong predictive performance for in-hospital mortality (AUC\u202f=\u202f0.83; 95% CI: 0.77\u20130.89). Multivariate analysis indicated that BAR was an independent risk factor for in-hospital mortality (OR\u202f=\u202f1.06; 95% CI: 1.01\u20131.12), with a significant increase in mortality risk observed in most subgroups as BAR increased. A nonlinear relationship with a saturation effect was observed between BAR and in-hospital mortality (P for non-linearity\u202f=\u202f0.002), with an inflection point of 8.51. Further two-piecewise logistic regression analysis revealed that when BAR was &amp;lt;8.51, the risk of in-hospital mortality increased significantly (OR\u202f=\u202f1.69, 95% CI: 1.16\u20132.53), whereas when BAR was \u22658.51, the association was not statistically significant (OR\u202f=\u202f0.99, 95% CI: 0.92\u20131.06).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>Baseline BAR serves as a simple, clinically useful prognostic biomarker of in-hospital mortality in non-diabetic NSTEMI patients. 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