The Veteran's peripheral neuropathy is granted as service connected, and the right foot and lumbar spine disabilities are remanded for further development.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the Veteran’s peripheral neuropathy was at least as likely as not aggravated by his service-connected diabetes mellitus, type II. The right foot and lumbar spine disabilities were remanded due to inadequate medical opinions.
- Claimed conditions
- Peripheral neuropathy, Right foot disability, Lumbar spine disability
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 22, 2019
- Citation
- 19112986
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Decisions by this judge: 631 · Granted: 21% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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