The Board has granted service connection for bilateral lower extremity peripheral neuropathy and bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome, both secondary to the Veteran's service-connected Type II diabetes mellitus.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence established that the Veteran's current diagnoses of diabetic peripheral neuropathy of the right and left lower extremities and bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome were proximately due to his service-connected Type II diabetes mellitus.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral lower extremity peripheral neuropathy, Bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 21, 2019
- Citation
- 19164839
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