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Pulmonary Tuberculosis (Pulmonary TB) is an infectious disease whose etiology is
the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The possibility of getting pulmonary TB disease, one of the factors that influence is body weight which is included in the thin category, because people who are thin do not have the nutrition intake in the body so that it will increase the risk of pulmonary TB, the process of pulmonary TB disease can affect endurance and contribute to weight loss. The research objective was to analyze the weight gain of patients with pulmonary
tuberculosis between before treatment and during the advanced phase of treatment in the Teunom Health Center Teunom District Aceh Jaya Regency. This quantitative research method was carried out from July 2017 to January 2018, the study population numbered 31 people with pulmonary TB (BTA +) who were in the advanced phase of treatment (≥ 4 months of treatment) in the Teunom Puskesmas Teunom District Aceh Jaya Regency, Sampling with total sampling technique amounted to 31 people with pulmonary tuberculosis. The results of the bivariate analysis showed that there was an increase in body weight of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis between before treatment and during the advanced phase of treatment (P = 0.002). Conclusion: Comparison of the weight of pulmonary TB patients from the weight in the thin category before treatment so that the weight gain becomes a normal category during the advanced phase