Service connection for Parkinson's disease is granted, and the claim for secondary service connection for Erectile Dysfunction related to the service-connected Parkinson’s disease is remanded.
The deciding factor: The Veteran was found to have been exposed to herbicide agents during his service in Thailand, which is sufficient to grant presumptive service connection for Parkinson's disease. The ED is being remanded as there is insufficient evidence linking it to the service-connected Parkinson’s disease.
- Claimed conditions
- Parkinson's disease, Erectile Dysfunction
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 19, 2020
- Citation
- 20074338
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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- Partly granted
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- Dismissed
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- Granted
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