The Board finds that the Veteran's bilateral cataracts are not related to his service-connected diabetes mellitus and therefore does not meet the criteria for service connection.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence does not support a finding of a direct or secondary relationship between the Veteran's bilateral cataracts and his service-connected diabetes mellitus.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral Cataracts
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 25, 2018
- Citation
- 1805198
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