The Board granted an effective date of April 30, 2013, for the award of service connection for diabetes with erectile dysfunction, bilateral retinopathy, and hypertension due to exposure to herbicides under the PACT Act.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service in Guam between February 1969 to September 1970 is presumed to have exposed him to herbicides, which led to the granting of service connection for diabetes with its complications on a presumptive basis starting from April 30, 2013.
- Claimed conditions
- diabetes mellitus type II (with erectile dysfunction, bilateral retinopathy, and hypertension)
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- June 6, 2025
- Citation
- A25050315
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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for hypertension and bilateral retinopathy as secondary to hypertension pursuant to the PACT Act, while remanding other claims for further development.
- Partly granted
The veteran is granted a 10% rating for bilateral retinopathy with cataracts but denied a higher rating.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for all claimed conditions due to lack of evidence of herbicide agent exposure during the Veteran's service.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for a medical opinion addressing whether the Veteran's left eye condition is related to service, as it found that the condition did not preexist service.
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