The Board has granted service connection for right and left upper extremity diabetic peripheral neuropathy, finding that the conditions are proximately due to or related to the Veteran's service-connected diabetes.
The deciding factor: The evidence is in equipoise as to whether the Veteran’s current upper extremity peripheral neuropathy disabilities are proximately due to his service-connected diabetes.
- Claimed conditions
- right upper extremity diabetic peripheral neuropathy, left upper extremity diabetic peripheral neuropathy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 1, 2019
- Citation
- 19182818
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