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Review
. 2023 Oct 23:10:1260569.
doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2023.1260569. eCollection 2023.

Trends in exercise for hypertension: a bibliometric analysis

Yan Lou #  1   2 , Ning Sun #  1   2 , Min Zhang  3 , Yongzhen Qiu  4 , Jie Wang  5 , Jiajia Chen  6
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Review

Trends in exercise for hypertension: a bibliometric analysis

Yan Lou et al. Front Cardiovasc Med. .

Abstract

Objective: To investigate development trends and research hotspots of exercise for hypertension research and provide researchers with fresh perspectives for further studies.

Materials and methods: Articles and reviews regarding exercise and hypertension spanning May 1st 2003 to May 18th 2023 were retrieved from the Web of Science Core Collection (WOSCC) database. VOSviewer and Citespace were mainly used to perform and visualize co-authorship, co-citation, and co-occurrence analysis of countries, institutions, authors, references and keywords in this field.

Results: A total of 1,643 peer-reviewed papers were identified, displaying a consistent increasing trend over time. The most prolific country and institution were Brazil and University of Sao Paulo, respectively. And we identified the most productive author was lrigoyen, Maria Claudia C, while Pescatello Linda S was the most co-cited author. Journal of hypertension was the most prominent journal, and Hypertension was the journal which was the most co-cited. And this field can be divided into 3 research themes: exercise interventions for hypertension, age-specific relevance of exercise for hypertension, and the global burden of hypertension and the role of exercise. According to the result of keywords analysis, epidemiological information, types of exercise, target population, mechanism, and study design are significant research areas. "Resistance training", "adults", and "heart rate variability" were identified as the major future research foci.

Conclusions: The findings offer a scientific insight into exercise for hypertension research, presenting researchers with valuable information to understand the current research status, hotspots, and emerging trends for future investigation.

Keywords: CiteSpace; high blood pressure; hypertension management; non-pharmacological intervention; research hotspots.

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

Figures

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Flowchart of the publications selection.
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The number of publications and total citations.
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Visual map of countries/region. (A) Geographic distribution map based on the total publications of different countries/regions. (B) Number of annual publications and growth trends of the top 10 countries/regions. (C) Collaboration network analysis of the countries/regions. (D) The international network cooperation between the countries/regions.
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Figure 4
Collaboration network analysis of institutions.
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Collaboration network analysis of authors.
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The network visualization map of co-cited authors.
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The network visualization map of co-cited references.
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Figure 8
Analysis of keywords. (A) Keywords co-occurrence. (B) Keyword clustering. (C) Timeline of keywords.
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Figure 9
Visualization map of top 30 keywords with the strongest citation bursts.
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Figure 10
Timeline of co-cited reference.
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