Dr Pulin Gupta: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- Professor in the department of medicine at Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital
- Quoted on
- Elderly care & frailty
- Tracked press citations
- 2
- Most recently quoted
- 30 Sept 2026
“They often see multiple specialists and prescriptions are not always reviewed together. In frail older adults, over-treatment can do more harm than good - for instance, aspirin for primary prevention should be avoided, excessive blood pressure control can lead to falls, and drugs like diuretics, insulin or sulfonylureas can cause electrolyte imbalance or hypoglycaemia. The focus should be on reducing medicines where the risks outweigh the benefits.”
What Dr Pulin Gupta has said
“In frail older adults, over-treatment can do more harm than good - for instance, aspirin for primary prevention should be avoided, excessive blood pressure control can lead to falls, and drugs like diuretics, insulin or sulfonylureas can cause electrolyte imbalance or hypoglycaemia. The focus should be on reducing medicines where the risks outweigh the benefits.”
professor in the department of medicine at Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital · Elderly care & frailty · 30 Sept 2026 · Too many meds in old age? Cutting back could be safe ↗
Where Dr Pulin Gupta has been quoted
- Are you taking too many medicines? Study says stopping some drugs could be safe for this age groupm.economictimes.com · 30 Sept 2026
- Too many meds in old age? Cutting back could be safetimesofindia.indiatimes.com · 30 Sept 2026
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