Research Article

Bibliometric Study of Trends in the Diabetic Nephropathy Research Space from 2016 to 2020

Table 2

Cluster analysis of high-frequency DN-related MeSH terms/MeSH subheadings.

ClusterNumber of MeSH term/MeSH subheadingsCluster analysis

03,9,19,42,50,7,54,46,25,12,201.Etiology of DN
2.Diagnosis of DN
3.Blood and urinary markers of DN
139,29,15,1,44,52,37,14,5,18,6,31,401.Drugs treat DN by signal transduction or oxidative stress
2.Some plants extract drugs to treat DN
3.Hypoglycemic drugs for DN
247,16,38,21,53,32,4,35,551.Single gene polymorphism of DN
2.MCs in DN pathology
3.Podocytes in DN pathology
313,48,17,43,10,27,30,8,26,411.Treatment of DN
2.Epidemiology of the DN
3.Pathophysiology of the DN
451,24,36,11,22,23,28,2,33,49,34,451.MicroRNAs in DN
2.Signal transduction in DN