The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including diabetes mellitus, peripheral neuropathy, ischemic heart disease, and others, are found to be severe enough to prevent him from obtaining and maintaining substantially gainful employment.
The deciding factor: The Veteran has multiple service-connected disabilities that have prevented him from working due to physical limitations caused by his conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- diabetes mellitus, peripheral neuropathy of the right and left lower extremity sciatic nerve, peripheral neuropathy of the right and left lower extremity femoral nerve, ischemic heart disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- March 6, 2019
- Citation
- 19116360
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What this means for you
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