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Materials and Methods: A total of 174 patients equally divided into 2 groups depending on the PCOS diagnosis were included in this prospective study. We used the Mantel\u2013Haenszel test to evaluate the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes for the PCOS patients and reported the results as a crude and adjusted odds ratio (OR) with a 95% confidence interval (CI). A generalized linear model was used to identify the predictors of adverse pregnancy outcomes in PCOS patients, quantifying their impact as risk ratios (RR) with 95% CIs. Significant predictors were included in four machine learning-based algorithms and a sensitivity analysis was employed to quantify their performance. Results: Our crude estimates suggested that PCOS patients had a higher risk of developing gestational diabetes and had a higher chance of giving birth prematurely or through cesarean section in comparison to patients without PCOS. When adjusting for confounders, only the odds of delivery via cesarean section remained significantly higher for PCOS patients. Obesity was outlined as a significant predictor for gestational diabetes and fetal macrosomia, while a personal history of diabetes demonstrated a significant impact on the occurrence of all evaluated outcomes. Random forest (RF) performed the best when used to predict the occurrence of gestational diabetes (area under the curve, AUC value: 0.782), fetal macrosomia (AUC value: 0.897), and preterm birth (AUC value: 0.901) in PCOS patients. 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