The Board has determined that there is no medical evidence to support the veteran's claims of secondary service connection for claudication, dry skin, and bladder dysfunction. The conditions are not proximately due to or the result of his service-connected diabetes mellitus.
The deciding factor: There is insufficient medical nexus between the veteran's service-connected type II diabetes mellitus and his currently diagnosed claudication, dry skin, and bladder dysfunction.
- Claimed conditions
- claudication, dry skin, bladder dysfunction
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 15, 2006
- Citation
- 0639066
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