The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for bilateral eye diabetic retinopathy, finding no current diagnosis of the condition and concluding that it is less likely than not related to his service-connected diabetes mellitus.
The deciding factor: There was no current diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy in either eye, and the examiner concluded there were no ocular conditions directly attributable to systemic diabetes. The Veteran's vision issues are attributed to age-related cataracts and chorioretinal scar.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral eye diabetic retinopathy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 11, 2020
- Citation
- 20059885
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