diabetes Aortic Valve

[treysnonna]

anyone put in a claim for ihd or related to diabetes 2? if so have you heard anything back yet.

[stillhere]

anyone put in a claim for ihd or related to diabetes 2? if so have you heard anything back yet.

I filed back in 05 for heart disease secondary to DM2 and was granted CAD secondary to my DM2. This is a pretty simple one to get connected IF you have the DM2 first!

[treysnonna]

at my husbands cp he told them he was filing heart problems secondary to dm2, but when we got the paper work back from va the cp examiner had it down as ihd, so we are waiting to see what happens with it. he also had my husband down as a marine, my husband was Navy/uscg. he was in vietnam when he was with the navy. why would the ------ examiner put him down as a marine? go figure!

[treysnonna]

oh yes he was stationed ashore at Danang in 67 and 68 with coastal surveilance. he is one of those TET 68 boys.

[jbasser]

If he can prove boots on ground in Vietnam thenhe doesnt need to secondary connect the heart disease. It wll be a direct SC.

That would be your best bet as long as he doesnt have Aortic Stenosis or Valve issues and no cad. If ha has cad, then I see a win.

J

[Berta]

jbasser is right!~

If found medically as secondary to DMII due to AO and is CAD or IHD-they will service connect it unless there is somehow some other etiology for his heart disease or the heart disease came before the DMII diagnosis.

[Berta]

PS -the aortic problem could possibly be due to and secondary to his heart disease as well-but VA will be looking at any EKGs,ECHO results and METS results to determine the heart disease rating.