The Board has restored service connection for Chronic Kidney Disease with Hypertension and found the severance of service connection for Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy of the Left Upper Extremity and Right Upper Extremity to be proper.
The deciding factor: The evidence does not clearly and unmistakably establish that the Veteran's CKD is not secondary to his service-connected diabetes mellitus, while the evidence against the claim shows that he has bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) rather than diabetic peripheral neuropathy of the upper extremities.
- Claimed conditions
- Chronic Kidney Disease with Hypertension, Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy of the Left Upper Extremity, Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy of the Right Upper Extremity
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 22, 2021
- Citation
- 21024212
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- Granted
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