The Board denied the Veteran's claim of service connection for COPD as secondary to his service-connected diabetes mellitus, type II. The VA examiner concluded that there was no causal or aggravating relationship between the two conditions.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found no evidence of a direct link between the service-connected diabetes and the diagnosed COPD, concluding instead that the COPD is not aggravated by the diabetes.
- Claimed conditions
- COPD
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 4, 2019
- Citation
- 19142327
What this means for you
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