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03 January 2022: Database Analysis  

Relationships Between Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Cardiovascular Disease: A Bibliometric Analysis (2010–2021)

Yumeng Wang1AE, Xintian Shou12AC, Yang Wu3AG*, Zongjing Fan2BC, Jie Cui2DF, Rui Zhuang1CD, Ruixiang Luo1BF

DOI: 10.12659/MSM.933448

Med Sci Monit 2022; 28:e933448

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a common disease that can lead to intermittent hypoxia, increased sympathetic overdrive, and excessive oxidative stress, and eventually lead to cardiovascular/cerebrovascular diseases and metabolic disorders. The prevalence of OSA is reported to be higher in people with certain cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Therefore, the relationship between OSA and CVD has been gradually favored by researchers.

MATERIAL AND METHODS: Data were downloaded from the Web of Science Core Collection database. Citespace was used to remove duplicated data and construct knowledge visual maps.

RESULTS: A total of 7047 publications were obtained. The USA was the largest contributor as well as an important player in the cooperation network between nations. The leading institution was the Mayo Clinic. Our study ultimately identified the top 5 hotspots and 4 research frontiers in this field. Top 5 hotspots were: the specific types of obstructive sleep apnea-related cardiovascular and metabolic co-morbidities, the curative effects of CPAP on these co-morbidities, the specific mechanisms of co-morbidities, the importance of polysomnography on OSA and its co-morbidities with CVD, and the prevalence of OSA and its co-morbidities with CVD in particular populations. The top 4 frontiers were: the relationship between OSA and resistant hypertension, the molecular mechanisms of OSA and its co-morbidities with CVD, specific medications and treatment guidelines for the co-morbidities, and the mainstream research methods in this field.

CONCLUSIONS: This study provides insight and valuable information for researchers and helps to identify new perspectives concerning potential collaborators and cooperative institutions, hot topics, and research frontiers in this field.

Keywords: Bibliometrics, Cardiovascular Diseases, Sleep Apnea Syndromes, Sleep apnea, obstructive, Comorbidity, Continuous Positive Airway Pressure, Disease Management, Humans, International Cooperation, Metabolic Networks and Pathways, Polysomnography, Prevalence, Research, Risk Factors

Background

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a disease characterized by repeated episodes of upper airway closure during sleep, which results in recurrent oxyhemoglobin desaturation and sleep fragmentation. OSA can lead to intermittent hypoxia, increased sympathetic overdrive, and excessive oxidative stress, and can eventually lead to cardiovascular/cerebrovascular diseases and metabolic disorders. Recent epidemiological studies have shown that the prevalence of OSA is about 14% in men and 5% in women [1]. OSA is an independent risk factor for many cardiovascular diseases (CVD), and is also associated with obesity [2], insulin resistance [3], hypertension [4], arrhythmias [5], stroke [6], coronary artery disease [7,8], heart failure [9], and atherosclerosis [10]. Patients with CVD are susceptible to OSA-related stress factors and their associated adverse cardiovascular outcomes. The prevalence of OSA is reported to be higher in people with certain cardiovascular diseases. For example, the prevalence of OSA is 40% in patients with hypertension and rises to 90% in patients with refractory hypertension [11]. About 30~60% of OSA patients have a complicated arrhythmia, including sinus arrest, second-degree atrioventricular block, atrial flutter, atrial fibrillation, premature atrial (ventricular) contraction, ventricular (supraventricular) tachycardia, and even sudden cardiac death [12,13]. Likewise, the prevalence of OSA is conservatively estimated to be 12% to 53% in patients with HFrEF and 40% in patients with HFpEF [14]. Despite the high incidence of OSA in patients with various types of CVD, OSA is often underrecognized and undertreated in the treatment of CVD. The relationship between OSA and CVD has been gradually favored by researchers.

Bibliometric analysis contains co-word analysis and cluster analysis. It is used to present the knowledge structure, identify international collaborations and geographic distributions, as well as explore development tendency via quantitative analysis [15,16]. Citespace is a Java-based bibliometric visualization tool created by Chaomei Chen (University of Dressel). It uses programming methods to help visualize the research countries, institutions, and authors [17]. The most notable feature is that Citespace can identify research hotspots and frontiers by analyzing co-cited references and burst terms. In this review, we used Citespace to present the current research situation and future trends of OSA and CVD in a visual way, aiming to provide direction for related researchers.

Material and Methods

SEARCH STRATEGIES:

We collected the data from the Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC) database. These data were download on Apr 26th (2021). We used the following topics for retrieval: (heart OR *cardi* OR “blood pressure” OR hypertension OR coronary OR “atrioventricular block”) AND (“obstructive sleep apnea” OR “obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome” OR OSAHS). Indexes: SCI-expanded, CCR-expanded, IC. Timespan: 2010–2021. Only articles and reviews were included, while other types of publications were excluded.

DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS:

The full record and cited references were exported from WoSCC in plain text format. First, we imported the data into Citespace (Version 5.7 R5, University of Dressel, Chaomei Chen) to remove duplication. After that, we constructed knowledge visual maps by using Citespace [17,18].

PARAMETERS SETTING:

Timespan: 2005–2021 (Slice Length=1). Selection Criteria: Top 50. Term source: all selected. Node type: check one at a time. Selection criteria: 50. Pruning: pathfinder. Visualization: cluster view static, display merged network.

ANALYTICAL METHOD:

The nodes in the map represent the countries, authors, institutions, or keywords. The link lines between the nodes indicate the collaboration relationship. The wider the line, the stronger the relationship between the 2 nodes. The size of the node represents the number of studies published. The purple ring represents centrality of more than 0.1, which means the element is considered relatively important.

Results

SEARCH RESULTS:

The initial search resulted in 8226 publications after duplicates had been removed. These publications included articles (5678), reviews (1369), editorial materials (224), proceedings papers (89), news item (1), letters (152), book chapters (48), retracted publications (2), meeting abstracts (790), early access (86), correction (11), and retraction (1). A total of 7047 publications met the inclusion criteria – 5678 articles and 1369 reviews.

ANNUAL PUBLICATION OUTPUT:

A total of 382 papers were published in 2010. The annual publication output increased sharply from 2010 to 2014 and showed a fluctuating upward trend from 2015 to 2019. A total of 747 papers were published in 2020, which is the year with the highest number of papers. To date, a total of 178 papers have been published in 2021, and the number is expected to grow (Figure 1). The results showed that the field of the relationship between OSA and CVD had gradually developed in the past decade.

ANALYSIS OF JOURNALS:

The top 10 most productive journals are listed in Table 1. According to the results, the journal Sleep and Breathing published the most articles and came in first place. This journal focuses on different pathological respiratory states during sleep and covers a wide range of sub-topics. The journal has published worldwide studies of OSA on prevalence, etiology, pathogenesis, and treatment. The American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, with the highest impact factor of 21.405, paid special attention to cardiovascular consequences of OSA and published many relevant articles. The majority of these journals are in the field of sleep, with the rest distributed among journals related to cardiothoracic, respiratory, nervous and metabolic diseases. There is still currently no specific journal on OSA and cardiovascular co-morbidities.

ANALYSIS OF COUNTRIES, INSTITUTIONS, AND AUTHORS:

The co-occurrence map provides valuable information and helps researchers to identify the cooperative relationship. A total of 595 researchers from more than 97 countries and 265 institutions contributed to the 7047 articles on the research of the relationship between OSA and CVD. The top 10 countries and institutions in terms of frequency and centrality are shown in Tables 2 and 3, respectively. The USA (2223) and China (707) were the leading countries. The Mayo Clinic (154) and Harvard Medical School (142) were the leading institutions. Australia, Singapore, Denmark, the University of Melbourne, and Boston University have high centrality, which means active cooperation has already developed (Figures 2, 3). Susan Redline, David Gozal, and Jeanlouis Pepin were the most productive authors (Table 4). We can draw a conclusion from Figure 4 that many authors prefer to cooperate with a relatively stable group of authors to generate several major author clusters, and each of these clusters contains more than 2 core authors.

ANALYSIS OF CO-CITED REFERENCES:

Analysis of co-cited references can help identify the influential publications and authors, as well as development tendency in this field. A total of 420 papers were obtained. The top 10 most co-cited references are listed in Table 5. Three of them reported the epidemiological information of OSA. Specifically speaking, Heinzer and Peppard found a sharp increase in the prevalence of OSA in adults from Wisconsin (USA) and Lausanne (Switzerland) over the past 20 years, and pointed out the independent associations between severity of sleep-disordered breathing and hypertension [19,20]. Senaratna made a systematic review to determine the prevalence of OSA in the general population, and mentioned that the diagnostic apnea hypopnea index (AHI) level where the treatment needs to begin can be determined based on the related morbidity/mortality profile, as in the case of hypertension and hyperlipidemia [21]. Three other studies emphasized the relationship between OSA and CVD. Gottlieb carried out a prospective study and found that OSA is associated with an increased risk of incident heart failure in community-dwelling middle-aged and older men [22]. Javaheri made a review to generalize the clinical cardiovascular consequences and molecular signatures of OSA concerning cardiocerebrovascular disorders [23]. The paper “Adult obstructive sleep apnea”, published in the Lancet, was considered to be the first comprehensive review in this field. The authors highly summarized the diagnosis, definitions, pathophysiology, risk factors, consequences, and management of OSA. Then they cited a large number of examples to illustrate the relationship between OSA and other CVD, such as hypertension, and pointed out that the effect of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) on CVD in OSA patients is equivocal [24]. Similarly, the SAVE study, a large international multi-center randomized controlled study conducted by McEvoy, showed that CPAP did not prevent cardiovascular events in patients with moderate-to-severe OSA and established cardiovascular disease [25]. Another study showed a significant positive association between ischemic stroke and AHI in men, in which each 1-unit increase in OAHI in men was estimated to increase stroke risk by 6% in the mild-to-moderate range [26]. In addition, 2 important guidelines were also obtained through our analysis: one is an update of the “2007 AASM Manual for the Scoring of Sleep and Associated Events” by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM), and the other is a clinical practice guideline for diagnostic testing for adult OSA [27,28]. These findings suggest that we still need to deepen clinical understanding of the relationship between OSA and CVD, and also emphasized the importance of treatment of OSA, especially in patients with complicated CVD. Clinical practice urgently needs therapeutic measures that have definite and significant positive effects on cardiovascular events.

A document co-citation analysis produced 10 co-citation clusters, which were marked by indexed terms from their citations. The results showed Modularity Q=0.8333 >0.3 and Silhouette=0.9504 >0.7, which demonstrated that the cluster structure was significant, and the results were accurate, reasonable, and reliable (Figure 5). Cluster #0, labeling “hypertension”, was the largest cluster, consisting of 36 references, followed by “mandibular advancement device” (cluster #1), “atrial fibrillation” (cluster #2), and “acute coronary syndrome” (cluster #3).

ANALYSIS OF KEYWORDS AND BURST TERMS:

Keywords represent the main content of research. Keyword co-occurrence analysis provides a reasonable description of research hotspots (Figure 6). The top keywords were “obstructive sleep apnea”, “positive airway pressure”, “hypertension”, “association”, “blood pressure”, “cardiovascular disease”, “risk factor”, “prevalence”, “risk”, and “obesity” (Table 6).

Finally, we used Citespace to obtain burst terms that can represent research frontiers by counting the frequency and growth rate of keywords in this field. The larger the burst value, the greater the innovation of the research outcomes. Of the top 20 burst terms with the strongest citation bursts in this field (Figure 7), we were particularly interested in those keywords that related to cardiovascular health, including “coronary heart diseases”, “myocardial infarction”, “cardiovascular risk factor”, “heart health”, “resistant hypertension”, and “cardiovascular event”.

TOP 5 HOTPOTS AND 4 FRONTIERS:

The analyses of keywords and clusters reflect the core themes and hot contents in this field. Burst terms represent the indicators of frontier or emerging trends. We summarize the top 5 research hotspots as follows: the specific types of obstructive sleep apnea-related cardiovascular and metabolic co-morbidities, the curative effects of CPAP on these co-morbidities, the specific mechanisms of co-morbidities, the importance of polysomnography on OSA and its co-morbidities with CVD, and the prevalence of OSA and its co-morbidities with CVD in particular populations. The top 4 frontiers were: the relationship between OSA and resistant hypertension, the molecular mechanisms of OSA and its co-morbidities with CVD, specific medications and treatment guidelines for the co-morbidities, and the mainstream research methods in this field.

Discussion

RESEARCH PROGRESS IN OSA AND CVD:

Gastaut [29] and Jung [30] found the existence of sleep apnea in 1965. Christian Guilleminault, the founding editor of the journal SLEEP, proposed the concept of OSAHS in 1978. Since 2000, many relevant guidelines have been developed by different countries and different associations. In 2017, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) issued a guideline which defined OSA as a single disease for the first time, that can coexist with CVD, rather than a syndrome [31]. In June 2021, the American Heart Association (AHA) issued a new scientific statement published in the journal Circulation. It detailed the strong link between OSA and CVD in terms of risk factors, pathophysiology, and clinical manifestations [32]. Today, OSA-related cardiovascular co-morbidities are very common but are still frequently undiagnosed.

Our research results shows that a growing number of studies from 2010 to 2021 have been conducted to confirm a strong association between OSA and CVD, which indicated that this field has aroused heated discussion and wide concern in recent years. The results also show that the USA was the largest contributor and an important player in the cooperation network between nations. However, the journals related to research in this field had lower impact factors which indicated that researchers should focus on improving the content of their studies and conducting high-quality studies. To sum up, it is urgent for countries to strengthen cooperation, carry out relevant research in related fields, and publish high-quality articles.

STRENGTHS AND LIMITATIONS:

To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first bibliometric analysis of publications focused on the relationship between OSA and CVD to provide direction concerning potential collaborators, hotspots, and frontiers. However, this study still has some limitations. The publications were all written in English and were retrieved only from WOSCC, which may not be comprehensive. Some authors’ names in the literature are given by using the same abbreviation, which may cause misidentification by Citespace.

Conclusions

Our study ultimately identified 5 hotspots and 4 research fron2in this field through the analysis of co-cited references, clusters, keywords, and burst terms.

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