The Board has granted service connection for alcohol use disorder as secondary to PTSD, and the issues of peripheral neuropathy of the right and left lower extremities are remanded due to insufficient evidence regarding their etiology.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner could not definitively state whether the Veteran's alcohol use disorder caused or aggravated his peripheral neuropathy, but acknowledged that it was a contributing factor.
- Claimed conditions
- alcohol use disorder, peripheral neuropathy of the right lower extremity, peripheral neuropathy of the left lower extremity
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 14, 2020
- Citation
- 20025655
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What this means for you
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