The Board denied service connection for the claimed conditions, finding that there was no evidence to support a secondary relationship between any of the claimed conditions and the Veteran's active service or service-connected diabetes mellitus.
The deciding factor: There is no competent medical evidence showing a direct link between the Veteran's current diagnoses and his military service or service-connected diabetes mellitus.
- Claimed conditions
- Congestive Heart Failure, Venous Insufficiency of Lower Extremities, Peripheral Neuropathy of Upper and Lower Extremities, Erectile Dysfunction, Residuals of Stroke
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 22, 2010
- Citation
- 1003320
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What this means for you
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