The diabetics have risk of pulmonary tuberculosis It caused by lacking of immune system and malnutrition, eventhough the diabetics’ nutritional status commonly is normal or overweight. This research aimed to analyze risk of nutritional status and blood sugar to patients of diabetes mellitus with pulmonary tuberculosis. The study was observational analytic with case control design. There were 20 samples in each case and control located in Sawahan Sub-district, Surabaya. The data collection used questionnaire and medical record of participants from the community health care. The data was analysed using Pearson test correlation and odd ratio. The result showed no correlation between body mass index and blood sugar of both random (p=0.138) and fasting (p=0.166). The oberweight diabetics are much more likely to get pulmonary tuberculosis 1.3 times compared to normal diabetics (95% CI= 0.313
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