The Board has determined that the veteran's impotency and sterility are related to his service-connected diabetes mellitus, granting service connection for these conditions.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence shows that the veteran's erectile dysfunction (a late complication of diabetes) is directly related to his service-connected diabetes mellitus.
- Claimed conditions
- impotency, sterility
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 1, 2006
- Citation
- 0637219
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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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