The Board has determined that the Veteran's hypertensive chronic kidney disease is secondary to his service-connected diabetes mellitus, type II. The claim for secondary service connection is granted.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence supports a link between the Veteran's service-connected diabetes and his current hypertensive chronic kidney disease, with the private physician providing a nexus opinion linking the two conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- hypertensive chronic kidney disease
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 21, 2019
- Citation
- 19121044
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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.
What you can do next
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