The Board has determined that the veteran's current peripheral vascular disease of the lower extremities is secondary to cold injury during service, and grants service connection for this condition.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence supports an etiologic relationship between the veteran's current peripheral vascular disease and cold injury sustained during his military service in Alaska and Canada.
- Claimed conditions
- Peripheral vascular disease of the lower extremities
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 11, 2004
- Citation
- 0406420
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