The Board has granted the Veteran's claim for service connection for prostate hypertrophy, finding that it is at least as likely as not caused by his service-connected diabetes mellitus with erectile dysfunction.
The deciding factor: The Board found equipoise of evidence regarding whether the Veteran’s current prostate hypertrophy is proximately due to or caused by his service-connected diabetes mellitus with erectile dysfunction.
- Claimed conditions
- prostate hypertrophy, diabetes mellitus with erectile dysfunction
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 10, 2020
- Citation
- 20059535
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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- Denied
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