Prognostic Value of Blood Urea Nitrogen to Serum Albumin Ratio for Acute Kidney Injury and In-hospital Mortality in Intensive Care Unit Patients with Intracerebral Haemorrhage: a Retrospective Cohort Study Using the MIMIC-IV Database

Design: A retrospective cohort study using propensity score matching.

Setting: ICU of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Participants: The data of patients with ICH were obtained from the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care IV (V.1.0) database. A total of 1510 patients with ICH were enrolled in our study.

Main Outcome And Measure: The optimal threshold value of BAR is determined by the means of X-tile software (V.3.6.1) and the crude cohort was categorised into two groups on the foundation of the optimal cut-off BAR (6.0 mg/g). Propensity score matching and inverse probability of treatment weighting were performed to control for confounders. The predictive performance of BAR for AKI was tested using univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses. Multivariate Cox regression analysis was used to investigate the association between BAR and in-hospital mortality.

Results: The optimal cut-off value for BAR was 6.0 mg/g. After matching, multivariate logistic analysis showed that the high-BAR group had a significantly higher risk of AKI (OR, 2.60; 95% confidence index, 95% CI, 1.86 to 3.65, p<0.001). What's more, a higher BAR was also an independent risk factor for in-hospital mortality (HR, 2.84; 95% confidence index, 95% CI, 1.96 to 4.14, p<0.001) in terms of multivariate Cox regression analysis. These findings were further demonstrated in the validation cohort.

Conclusions: BAR is a promising and easily available biomarker that could serve as a prognostic predictor of AKI and in-hospital mortality in patients with ICH in the ICU.

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