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29 vetted Board decisions in 2008
The Board remands the claims for further development to obtain medical opinions regarding whether the service-connected diabetes mellitus aggravated the veteran's glaucoma and erectile dysfunction.
The veteran's glaucoma was not the result of carelessness, negligence, lack of proper skill, error in judgment or similar instance of fault on the part of the VA in furnishing medical treatment; it did not represent an event that was not reasonably foreseeable; and it was not attributable to the VA's failure to diagnose and/or treat a preexisting glaucoma when the VA provided treatment.
The appeal is remanded to the RO for additional development, including obtaining medical opinions on direct service connection and in-service aggravation questions.
The Board found that the preponderance of the evidence does not demonstrate a current disability manifested by diabetic retinopathy or that the veteran's currently diagnosed glaucoma was caused or aggravated by his service-connected diabetes mellitus.
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The Board denied service connection for COPD, glaucoma, exogenous obesity, hypothyroidism, and hyperlipidemia each claimed to be secondary to diabetes mellitus.