The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for chronic kidney disease as secondary to his service-connected type II diabetes mellitus and coronary artery disease, finding that there is no evidence of a causal relationship between the conditions.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner concluded that the Veteran’s CKD was most likely due to his non-service connected condition (to include his longstanding NSC HTN) rather than his service-connected DMII or CAD.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic kidney disease (CKD), type II diabetes mellitus (DMII), coronary artery disease (CAD)
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 18, 2019
- Citation
- 19147045
What this means for you
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