Diabetes decisions — 2025

The Board remands the claims for service connection for diabetes, bilateral peripheral neuropathy, and a right foot disability due to insufficient development of evidence regarding herbicide exposure.

The Board granted service connection for a psychiatric disability but denied service connection for heart disability, type 2 diabetes mellitus, left lower peripheral neuropathy, and right lower peripheral neuropathy.

The Veteran's service-connected conditions of CAD, diabetes mellitus, and peripheral neuropathy prevent him from obtaining or maintaining substantially gainful employment.

The Board granted service connection for GERD and denied service connection for chronic sinusitis, while denying an initial compensable rating for erectile dysfunction. The remaining claims were remanded.

The Board denied service connection for diabetes mellitus as it was not shown to be chronic in service, did not manifest within the applicable presumptive period, and there is no medical evidence linking it to an in-service injury or event.

The Board granted the readjudication of service connection for diabetes, but denied or remanded other claims based on a lack of new and relevant evidence or due to incomplete medical records.

The veteran's appeal requests for service connection were dismissed as they were not timely filed.

The Board denied several claims for earlier effective dates and service connection, granted some claims for earlier effective dates, and remanded others for further development.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for diabetes mellitus, type II and hypertension to correct a duty to assist error.

The Board denied service connection for diabetes mellitus, type II and atrial fibrillation and non-ischemic cardiomyopathy as they were not shown to be causally or etiologically related to any disease, injury, or incident in service, including claimed herbicide exposure.

The Board granted service connection for unspecified anxiety disorder and denied service connection for PTSD, diabetes mellitus, type II, sleep apnea, hypertension, heart disability, headaches, erectile dysfunction, and remanded the claims for secondary service connection and TDIU.

The Board granted service connection for hypertension and diabetes on a secondary basis, but remanded the claim for blurred vision due to an inadequate VA examination.

The Board granted readjudication of the claims for service connection for congestive heart failure and diabetes mellitus, Type II based on new and relevant evidence.

The Board denied service connection for a vision disability, to include hyperopia and presbyopia, and remanded several other claims including those for kidney, hypertension, sleep apnea, diabetes mellitus, lower extremity neuropathy, hip, knee, heart, neck, upper extremity radiculopathy, and TDIU.

The Board remands the claim for service connection for diabetes mellitus type II to obtain an addendum opinion regarding its etiology.

The Board denied service connection for sleep apnea and an increased rating for diabetes mellitus, type II.

The Board granted service connection for diabetes mellitus and coronary artery disease (CAD) based on the Veteran's exposure to herbicides, as presumed under the PACT Act.

The Board denied the Veteran's request for an earlier effective date for the grant of service connection for diabetes mellitus type 2, hypertension, and coronary artery bypass graft (CABG), coronary artery disease, and status post myocardial infarction.

The Board denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for diabetes mellitus, erectile dysfunction, and hypertension as they did not meet the criteria. The claim for obstructive sleep apnea was remanded for further development.

The Board granted service connection for diabetes mellitus, type II, due to the Veteran's exposure to herbicide agents during his service in Vietnam.