The Board has remanded the case due to incomplete medical records and the need for further development, including obtaining treatment records from healthcare providers and asking the veteran about his hospitalization history. The VA will also provide a VA examination if the appellant can submit evidence linking current diabetes mellitus to service.
The deciding factor: The appeal is remanded due to missing medical records and the need for additional information regarding the veteran's hospitalizations during service.
- Claimed conditions
- Type 1 diabetes mellitus
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 30, 2005
- Citation
- 0517820
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What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the appeal for an initial rating higher than 60 percent for Type 1 diabetes mellitus and dismisses the appeals for service connection and higher ratings for left ear hearing loss, right ear hearing loss, bilateral tinnitus, lumbosacral strain, and right shoulder strain due to untimely notices of disagreement.
- Granted
The Board has restored service connection for Type 1 diabetes mellitus, finding that the initial grant of service connection was not clearly and unmistakably erroneous.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided to remand the case due to insufficient consideration of service treatment records in determining whether Type 1 diabetes mellitus is related to military service.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case for further development and consideration of the appellant's service connection claims, including an evaluation by a physician to determine the onset of Type 1 diabetes mellitus.
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