The Board has granted service connection for diabetic nephropathy, which is evaluated as 80 percent disabling. The veteran's hypertension is related to his service-connected diabetic nephropathy and thus service connection is also granted on a secondary basis.
The deciding factor: Hypertension was found to be proximately due to or the result of the veteran's service-connected diabetic nephropathy.
- Claimed conditions
- left shoulder disability, back disability
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 80%
- Decision date
- April 1, 2004
- Citation
- 0408517
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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