The Board granted service connection for diabetes as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with obesity as an intermediate step.
The deciding factor: The probative evidence persuasively demonstrated that the Veteran's diabetes was caused or aggravated by his obesity, which was in turn caused or aggravated by his service-connected PTSD.
- Claimed conditions
- diabetes
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 7, 2024
- Citation
- A24072766
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.
What you can do next
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- Partly granted
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- Dismissed
The appeal was dismissed due to the Veteran's death during the pendency of the appeal.
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