The Board has reopened the claim of service connection for bilateral plantar calluses with clawing of the toes and determined that preexisting bilateral plantar calluses worsened during active service. Service connection is granted for this condition.
The deciding factor: The evidence established that preexisting bilateral plantar calluses worsened beyond normal progression during active service, meeting the criteria for aggravation.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral plantar calluses, heart disease
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 15, 2004
- Citation
- 0406704
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