BVA Decisions on Diabetes

27 real Board of Veterans' Appeals decisions on VA disability claims involving diabetes. Each links to the full decision, reasoning, and citations.

• Case 22-4960 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed December 13,2023
  The next month, another audiologist provided a negative nexus opinion....
• Case 17-3598 — Vacated / Remanded May 8,2019
  Wisgo , through counsel,appeals a June 13,2017,Board of Veteran's Appeals (Board)decision in which the Board denied service connection for an inguinal hernia and back disability....
• Case 12-885 — Vacated / Remanded August 15,2013
  In doing so,the Board found that the appellant's military occupational specialty and personnel records ....
• Case 14-1556 — Vacated / Remanded May 19,2015
  3 In September 2009,the veteran underwent a VA spine examination,where a VA examiner opined that the veteran's current low back pain was less likely than not related to service,cit...
• Case 23-0092 — Vacated / Remanded March 21,2024
  The Board found that the April 2015 VA medical opinion address[ing]whether the [v]eteran's current endocrine conditions and hypertension were related to his service-connected diabe...
• Case 13-580 — Vacated / Remanded March 18,2014
  5103A(a), whether the Secretary's duty to assist required VA to obtain a medical opinion (R....
• Case 02-1077 — Vacated April 14, 2005
  In an addendum, the VA physician opined: This veteran's CAD is more likely than not related to both his long[]standing smoking and his [hypertension (HPT)]....
• Case 18-4445 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed December 30,2019
  First,we are asked to decide whether the Board failed to discuss medical evidence showing that PVD of the left lower extremity had first manifested in January 2006 warranting an ea...
• Case 23-1100 — Vacated / Remanded August 29,2024
  at 703-04 (determining that a May 2021 VA medical opinion did not comply with the prior remand in part because the examiner did not address the appellant's weight changes);R....
• Case 17-3439 — Affirmed / Reversed / Remanded August 9,2019
  155 (2017): 2 (1)entitlement to a total disability rating based on 1 There is no dispute between the parties that, when the Board determined that no further action is necessary,....
• Case 15-0594 — Reversed / Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed October 31,2016
  He appeals,through counsel,a December 9,2014, Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision that denied entitlement to service connection for right hand arthritis and determined that n...
• Case 23-6061 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed December 27,2024
  In May 2015,the appellant sought to reopen his claim,but the RO determined that he had not submitted new and material evidence....
• Case 24-6361 — Unknown January 6,2026
  The Board noted that the RO had not afforded the veteran a medical examination to determine whether his bilateral hand osteoarthritis was related to service,but the Board found no ...
• Case 14-1940 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed September 22,2015
  In July 2007,the Board denied a higher initial disability evaluation for right CTS but remanded the cervical strain and onychomycosis claims for additional development in complianc...
• Case 16-2080 — Affirmed April 25,2017
  In April 2009, the RO denied reopening the schizophrenia claim,indicating that evidence reviewed included October 1976 to April 2008 treatment records,which were not new and materi...
• Case 09-3980 — Vacated / Remanded July 13,2011
  Because the Board failed to provide an adequate statement of its reasons or bases for rejecting favorable lay evidence of record and failed to ensure that VA satisfied its duty to ...
• Case 21-1298 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded January 14,2022
  3 He underwent a VA eye examination in March 2017,and the examiner found that the appellant's glaucoma requires continual treatment and that the appellant has advanced visual field...
• Case 23-2415 — Vacated / Remanded June 28,2024
  In a September 2019 decision,the Board acknowledged that the appellant had submitted a wide variety of articles and documents concerning the use and storage of herbicide agents at ...
• Case 07-3060 — Unknown March 25,2010
  The principal issue before the Court is whether VA fulfilled its duty to assist by obtaining two VA medical examinations in which the examiners concluded that they were unable to r...
• Case 24-4780 — Vacated / Remanded October 22,2025
  The parties further agreed that the Board failed to address whether the appellant's macular degeneration was caused by in-service exposure to Agent Orange....
• Case 23-5497 — Unknown December 10,2024
  3 Case:23-5497 Page: 4 of 13 Filed:12/10/2024 VA sent the appellant a duty to assist notice letter in July 2019 which included the forms he was required to complete to apply for a ...
• Case 07-3547 — Affirmed / Remanded / Vacated May 22,2009
  Palmer appeals through counsel an October 30,2007,Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision in which the Board determined that a June 6,2000,Board decision had subsumed a July 9, 1...
• Case 24-2811 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded July 9,2025
  Thereafter,in September 2018,the Board found that the appellant had submitted new and material evidence to reopen his previously denied claims for mononucleosis (also claimed as to...
• Case 95-199 — Unknown August 25, 1999
  STEINBERG, Judge : The pro se appellant, veteran YU, appeals a September 1, 1992, Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board or BVA) decision that determined that new and material evidence ...
• Case 23-827 — Unknown February 29,2024
  PIETSCH, Judge :Appellant Natividad Fontillas,through counsel, appeals the December 30,2022,Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board) decision in which the Board denied effective dates ear...
• Case 04-0140 — Affirmed September 11, 2006
  In May 1982, a VA regional office (RO) denied him entitlement to service connection for his heart-related conditions on the grounds that there was no evidence in his service medica...
• Case 13-3507 — Affirmed September 17,2015
  Woods-Calhoun argues that the Board erred in its (1)threshold determination that she was not credible,and (2) determinations to deny benefits....