The Board has granted service connection for pes planus and dismissed the remaining issues of appeal.
The deciding factor: Service connection was established for pes planus due to an increase in severity during wartime service, with no clear and unmistakable evidence that the increase was not due to the natural progress of the condition.
- Claimed conditions
- pes planus, hepatitis C, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and bronchitis with upper respiratory infection, gouty arthritis, recurrent spontaneous pneumothorax, colon polyps, Type II diabetes mellitus, vitiligo
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 13, 2006
- Citation
- 0604093
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.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for Type II diabetes mellitus, finding that it is secondary to the Veteran's service-connected unspecified depressive disorder.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for hepatitis C, jaundice, hypogeusia, and hyposmia as there was no evidence of a current disability during the pendency of the claim.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death, finding that Type II diabetes mellitus and hypertension, which are presumed to have resulted from herbicide exposure during service, contributed substantially to his demise.
- Dismissed
The appeal for service connection for vitiligo has been withdrawn by the Veteran.
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