The Veteran's Parkinson's disease is found to be related to his service in Vietnam, specifically his exposure to Agent Orange. As a result, the claim for service connection is granted.
The deciding factor: The VA physician diagnosed the Veteran with Parkinson's disease and noted its association with environmental exposures, including Agent Orange exposure during his service in Vietnam.
- Claimed conditions
- Parkinson's disease
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 19, 2010
- Citation
- 1006200
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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.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Dismissed
The appeal seeking entitlement to service connection for Parkinson's disease was dismissed due to the Veteran's death during the pendency of the appeal.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for Parkinson's disease, which is presumed to have been incurred in active service due to exposure to contaminated water at Camp Lejeune.
- Granted
The Board granted an effective date of August 25, 2016 for the award of service connection for Parkinson's disease.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for revision of a May 2019 rating decision that assigned an initial 10 percent rating for Parkinson's disease, finding no clear and unmistakable error.
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