Neurotuberculosis as a Cause of Obesity.

ABSTRACT

Childhood obesity, taking the form of pandemic in the present era owing to the food habits, lifestyle etc, is the main cause of adult onset diseases. Obesity is the major risk factor for insulin resistance and diabetes, hypertension, cancer, gall bladder disease, and atherosclerosis in adulthood. Obesity being multi-factorial various genetic, anatomic, environmental factors are implicated to its etiognesis. While evaluating the causes of obesity in a child, in addition to the common causes, diseases involving hypothalamus should not be overlooked. We are discussing here a 9 year male child who reported to us for obesity and neurotuberculosis as the etiology was established.