The Veteran's renal insufficiency is found to be related to his service-connected diabetes mellitus, and the claim for TDIU is remanded.
The deciding factor: Renal insufficiency was determined to be at least as likely as not caused by the Veteran's service-connected diabetes mellitus.
- Claimed conditions
- atherosclerotic heart disease, renal insufficiency
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 40%
- Decision date
- July 23, 2010
- Citation
- 1027608
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