The Veteran's liver disorder, including cancer and cirrhosis, is granted as service connected due to its onset during service or being related to diabetes. The issue of specially adapted housing or special home adaptation grant is deferred pending the implementation of the grant.
The deciding factor: Service connection was established for the veteran's liver disorder based on continuity of symptomatology since service and a medically known association between nonalcoholic steatohepatitis and obesity, as well as PTSD being a risk factor for obesity.
- Claimed conditions
- liver disorder, cancer, cirrhosis
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- January 22, 2019
- Citation
- 19105130
What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
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