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We screened 29 prepartum biochemistry and hematology parameters for association with retained placenta (RP), dystocia, abortion\/stillbirth, ketosis, and milk fever in 419 calving events from two Korean dairy farms (DF1, n = 248; DF2, n = 171). Each calving was sampled twice prepartum on alternating biweekly schedules, resolved into an early (week \u22124\/\u22123) and late (week \u22122\/\u22121) window. Parameters were compared between affected and unaffected calvings using linear models adjusted for parity, body condition score (BCS), and farm, with Benjamini\u2013Hochberg false discovery rate (FDR) correction, and were then entered into multivariable logistic models. After adjustment and FDR correction, two markers remain associated with disease: lower prepartum calcium for milk fever and elevated direct bilirubin with reduced cholesterol and triglycerides for ketosis, both detectable in both windows three to four weeks before calving. Multivariable models discriminated milk fever (AUC = 0.81) and ketosis (AUC = 0.75), with comparable discrimination when models were applied to the other farm. A prepartum bilirubin signal for RP, consistent with an emerging bilirubin\u2013RP association reported via plasma metabolomics, was detectable but did not survive confounder adjustment and is reported as hypothesis-generating. Using only routine clinical biochemistry and a practical biweekly schedule, these parameters were associated with subsequent milk fever and ketosis weeks before calving, identifying them as candidate markers that require prospective validation.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ani16182946","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,21]],"date-time":"2026-09-21T11:05:53Z","timestamp":1789988753000},"page":"2946","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Prepartum Blood Biochemistry and Periparturient Disease Risk in Dairy Cows: A Retrospective Two-Farm Study"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"given":"Woojae","family":"Choi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Theriogenology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju 28644, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8567-4690","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Younghye","family":"Ro","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Large Animal Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon 24341, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Eunhui","family":"Choe","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Farm Animal Clinical Training and Research Center, Institutes of Green-Bio Science and Technology, Seoul National University, Pyeongchang 25354, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2426-9122","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Danil","family":"Kim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Farm Animal Clinical Training and Research Center, Institutes of Green-Bio Science and Technology, Seoul National University, Pyeongchang 25354, Republic of Korea"},{"name":"Department of Farm Animal Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea"},{"name":"Research Institute for Veterinary Science, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"S29","DOI":"10.1262\/jrd.1056S29","article-title":"Monitoring metabolic health of dairy cattle in the transition period","volume":"56","author":"LeBlanc","year":"2010","journal-title":"J. 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