Granted
The Board granted service connection for diabetes mellitus, finding the evidence to be approximately balanced as to exposure to herbicide agents and causation.
The deciding factor: The evidence was approximately balanced regarding in-service exposure to herbicide agents and the causal relationship between such exposure and the Veteran's diabetes mellitus, leading to a grant of service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- diabetes mellitus
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- February 25, 2025
- Citation
- 25002725
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