The Board has granted the veteran's claims for service connection and effective dates, with some issues receiving a 'granted' disposition.
The deciding factor: The effective date of the grant of service connection was determined based on the July 9, 2001 regulation allowing presumptive service connection for Type II diabetes due to Agent Orange exposure. The claims were granted as they arose prior to this effective date.
- Claimed conditions
- diabetes mellitus, depression and anxiety, diabetic retinopathy of the right eye, peripheral neuropathy of the left lower extremity, peripheral neuropathy of the right lower extremity, renal disease with coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure and hypertension, sexual dysfunction
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 17, 2005
- Citation
- 0504467
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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.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for service connection for hypertension and peripheral neuropathy of the bilateral upper and lower extremities due to insufficient medical opinions regarding their etiology.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for diabetes mellitus, prostate cancer, visual impairment, hypertension, and erectile dysfunction due to lack of exposure to herbicide agents during service. The Veteran's claims were not granted.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claims for service connection on the merits are being remanded due to new evidence and development needs. The maximum disability rating for tinnitus has already been assigned.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for diabetes mellitus, prostate cancer, ischemic heart disease, right lower extremity peripheral artery disease, left lower extremity peripheral artery disease, and hypertension as the evidence did not establish an in-service event or exposure to herbicide agents.
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