The Board has granted service connection for diabetes mellitus and cataracts as secondary to steroid treatment received for the veteran's service-connected splenectomy.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found that the veteran's current DM and cataracts are at least in part due to prednisone therapy for his service-connected splenectomy, which is considered a form of secondary service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- Diabetes Mellitus, Cataracts
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 11, 2006
- Citation
- 0613794
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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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