The Board has determined that the Veteran's lower extremity edema is proximately due to or the result of his service-connected diabetes mellitus, and therefore grants service connection for this condition.
The deciding factor: The private medical providers who submitted positive nexus opinions supported their findings with a review of the Veteran's clinical history and statements from the Veteran himself. The Board found these opinions credible and consistent with other evidence in the record.
- Claimed conditions
- lower extremity edema
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 9, 2011
- Citation
- 1133525
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What this means for you
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