Study on Spectrum of Diseases Related to Kidney Deficiency Based on Literature Co-word Analysis
基于文献共词分析的肾虚证候疾病谱研究

This study was aimed to investigate the spectrum of diseases related to kidney deficiency. Articles on kidney deficiency published from 1991 to 2010 were collected from the CBM online. Medical subject headings (MeSH) were extracted and calculated with BICOMB. The co-occurrence matrix was built. The SPSS and NetDraw were applied to the analysis of the high-frequency MeSH on related diseases. The results showed that kidney deficiency have a close relationship with diseases in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), such as infertility, impotence, climacteric syndrome, asthma, uterine bleeding, enuresis, menstrual disorder, amenorrhea, and etc. The kidney deficiency is also closely related to diseases in modern medicine, such as infertility, osteoporosis, diabetes mellitus, anemia, chronic renal failure, asthma, hypertension, nephritis, and etc. The spectrum of diseases related to kidney deficiency is concluded in both TCM and modern medicine. The relationship of kidney deficiency and spectrum of disease in both TCM and modern medicine has been revealed through bibliometrics.