The Board has determined that the Veteran's arthralgia is related to his service-connected diabetes mellitus, type II. The claim for secondary service connection is granted.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found that the Veteran's arthralgia of the right wrist/thumb, lower back, hips, and knees is at least as likely as not proximately due to or aggravated by his service-connected diabetes mellitus, type II.
- Claimed conditions
- arthralgia, traumatic arthritis of the right thumb, arthritis of the right hip and lower back, chronic arthritis pain in the knees, low back, and right thumb, degenerative disc disease of the lower lumbar spine, degenerative joint disease of the right wrist
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 17, 2016
- Citation
- 1620110
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