The appeal was granted for the readjudication of the claim of entitlement to service connection for diabetes mellitus, type II. The claim for secondary service connection is remanded.
The deciding factor: New and relevant evidence has been received sufficient to readjudicate the claim of entitlement to service connection for DM II.
- Claimed conditions
- Diabetes mellitus, type II
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 29, 2025
- Citation
- A25110590
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,135 · Granted: 33% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
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