The Veteran's claim for service connection for diabetes mellitus with congestive heart failure, chronic renal insufficiency, and impotency secondary to diabetes has been reopened. The claim for bilateral hearing loss (claimed as defective hearing) is granted.,Service connection for tremors was denied.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's current conditions were not shown as chronic in service or within the applicable presumptive period, and continuity of symptomatology was not established; therefore, they are not otherwise etiologically related to an in-service injury or disease.,Granting the Veteran the benefit of reasonable doubt, he has experienced symptoms of impaired hearing since active service.
- Claimed conditions
- diabetes mellitus with congestive heart failure and chronic renal insufficiency, impotency secondary to diabetes mellitus, bilateral hearing loss (claimed as defective hearing), tremors
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 8, 2020
- Citation
- 20001778
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