The Board has determined that the Veteran's bilateral upper extremity paresthesias and numbness are secondary to his service-connected diabetes mellitus, and thus grants service connection for right upper extremity neuropathy and left upper extremity neuropathy.
The deciding factor: The evidence is in equipoise as to whether the Veteran’s diagnosed mild numbness and paresthesias of the upper extremities are secondary to his service-connected diabetes mellitus.
- Claimed conditions
- diabetic peripheral neuropathy
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 25, 2019
- Citation
- 19132288
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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for diabetic peripheral neuropathy as it is etiologically linked to the Veteran's service-connected diabetes. Other claims were remanded for further development.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection due to a pre-decisional duty to assist error and to obtain additional medical opinions.
- Dismissed
The Board dismissed the appeals for service connection for ischemic heart disease, syncope, diabetes mellitus, Type-II, diabetic peripheral neuropathy, bilateral hearing loss, and fracture of two upper teeth due to procedural defects in the Veteran's filings.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for tinnitus and denied service connection for hypertension, coronary artery disease (CAD), diabetes mellitus, type I and II, right foot osteoarthritis, headaches, steatosis, and diabetic peripheral neuropathy.
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