The Board has granted service connection for an anoxic brain injury and its residuals as secondary to the veteran's service-connected type 2 diabetes mellitus.
The deciding factor: Medical opinions indicate that the veteran's service-connected diabetes mellitus caused or contributed to his anoxic brain injury and its residuals.
- Claimed conditions
- anoxic brain injury, quadriparesis and dysarthria
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 2, 2007
- Citation
- 0734551
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What this means for you
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- Denied
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- Granted
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Denied
The Veteran's death was not caused by a service-connected condition, and the Board found no evidence of exposure to herbicides in service. The claim for DIC based on service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death is denied.
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