The veteran's dementia with depression is granted as it is proximately due to his service-connected seizure disorder.
The deciding factor: Competent medical evidence shows that the veteran's dementia with depression is proximately due to his service-connected seizure disorder.
- Claimed conditions
- dementia with depression
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 21, 2009
- Citation
- 0902129
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Decisions by this judge: 3,038 · Granted: 30% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
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