The Board has determined that the Veteran's service-connected diabetes mellitus aggravates his heart disease, and thus grants service connection for heart disease as secondary to diabetes mellitus.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence indicates that the Veteran's elevated blood glucose levels (attributable to his eventually diagnosed diabetes) put him at greater risk for CAD and aggravated his heart condition.
- Claimed conditions
- Heart disease, Type II Diabetes Mellitus
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- March 5, 2010
- Citation
- 1008210
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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.
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