The Board has granted service connection for Alzheimer's disease as due to aggravation by the Veteran's service-connected Parkinson's disease. The effective date is not specified.
The deciding factor: The July 2015 physician review opinion found a 50 percent or greater probability that the Parkinson's disease aggravated the Veteran's Alzheimer's disease, and noted that medications used for Parkinson's disease cause symptoms such as confusion, hallucinations, and irritability which are consistent with the Veteran's Alzheimer's.
- Claimed conditions
- Alzheimer's, volume loss and mild chronic microvascular ischemic disease, mental disturbances, claustrophobia, sleep problems, strained relationship
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 15, 2017
- Citation
- 1739833
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