Diabetes decisions — 2025

The veteran's appeal for earlier effective dates for service connection and benefits was granted. The Board determined that the veteran is entitled to an earlier effective date of May 31, 2019, for TBI with adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood, TDIU, and DEA. Additionally, the veteran is entitled to an earlier effective date of April 22, 2021, for service connection for sleep apnea, diabetes mellitus, xerosis, erectile dysfunction, and SMC.

The appeals for service connection of right leg clot deep vein thrombosis (DVT), type 2 diabetes mellitus, prostate cancer, atrial fibrillation lung clot, and erectile dysfunction were dismissed due to the Veteran's death.

The Board denied an earlier effective date for TDIU and service connection for a headache disability. Other issues related to ratings and service connections were remanded for further evaluation.

The Board denied increased or initial ratings for the veteran's diabetes and related conditions, finding that the evidence did not meet the criteria for higher evaluations.

The Board remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection for coronary artery disease and diabetes mellitus, type II, due to inadequate medical examinations.

The Board remanded the claim for service connection of diabetes mellitus type II as secondary to insomnia because the VA medical exam did not adequately address potential aggravation.

The Veteran's appeal to increase his combined disability rating from 90% to 100% was denied. The Board found no error in the calculation of the combined evaluation.

The Board remanded the veteran's claim for service connection of diabetes mellitus type II, including exposure to Agent Orange. The decision was based on a duty to assist error that occurred prior to the January 2023 rating decision on appeal.

The Board denied service connection for right ankle disability, lateral collateral ligament sprain of the left ankle, right foot pain, and left foot pain. It granted readjudication for diabetes mellitus (DM II) and sexual dysfunction but ultimately denied these claims as well. The claims for right knee, left knee, right hip, and left hip conditions were remanded.

The veteran's service connection for diabetes mellitus type II due to herbicide exposure and related peripheral neuropathies is granted.

The veteran's claim for service connection for tinnitus was granted. Other claims were remanded for further action.

Service connection for asbestosis is denied. Other claims are remanded for further review.

The Board denied service connection for diabetes mellitus, finding that the Veteran's condition was not incurred in service and is not related to his service.

The veteran's effective date for service connection and increased ratings for various diabetic conditions is granted as of July 14, 2020. The claim for TDIU was dismissed.

The veteran's claim for service connection for myeloma cancer was denied. The veteran's request for a higher rating for diabetes mellitus type II was denied, but the request for a 60 percent rating for bilateral diabetic retinopathy with macula edema was granted. The issues of hypertension and total disability rating based on individual unemployability were remanded.

The Veteran's claims for service connection for hypertension and diabetes were denied. The claims for right elbow epicondylitis, left elbow epicondylitis, increased rating for bilateral hearing loss, and TDIU were remanded.

The appeal for service connection for diabetes mellitus, type II, and bilateral upper and lower extremity peripheral neuropathy was dismissed due to the Veteran's death.

The Board granted service connection for diabetes mellitus type II and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected degenerative disease of the lumbosacral spine and hallux valgus of the right foot status post bunionectomy.

The veteran's claim for a higher rating for diabetes mellitus, type II was denied. Claims for higher ratings for low back disability, right lower extremity radiculopathy, surgical scars, and left lower extremity radiculopathy were remanded.

The appeal for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) is remanded. The Board will reconsider the Veteran's claim after assigning initial ratings to service-connected disabilities.