The Veteran's claim for service connection for bilateral upper extremity neuropathy was reopened due to the receipt of new and material evidence. Service connection is granted for right and left upper extremity peripheral neuropathy as secondary to diabetes.
The deciding factor: Diabetic peripheral neuropathy has been diagnosed, which relates to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the claim and raises a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral upper extremity peripheral neuropathy, diabetic peripheral neuropathy
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 0%
- Decision date
- September 22, 2017
- Citation
- 1741501
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