The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection of glaucoma as secondary to his service-connected diabetes mellitus type II, finding that there was no evidence showing a direct link between the two conditions.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the Veteran's glaucoma had an onset prior to his diagnosis of diabetes and that the diabetes did not aggravate the glaucoma beyond its natural progression.
- Claimed conditions
- Glaucoma
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 30, 2019
- Citation
- 19196734
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What this means for you
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