The Board denied service connection for genitourinary, retinopathy, and cardiac disabilities as secondary to diabetes mellitus.
The deciding factor: There is no competent evidence of a current disability related to the claimed conditions or that they are due to or aggravated by service-connected diabetes mellitus.
- Claimed conditions
- genitourinary disability, retinopathy, cardiac disability
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 10, 2019
- Citation
- 19135970
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