The Veteran's service-connected diabetes is found to be the cause of his cerebrovascular accident (CVA), and therefore, service connection for the residuals of CVA is granted.
The deciding factor: The evidence is in relative equipoise regarding whether the Veteran’s strokes were caused by his service-connected diabetes.
- Claimed conditions
- Cerebrovascular accident (CVA)
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 6, 2019
- Citation
- 19116446
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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.
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- Denied
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- Denied
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- Denied
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