Va Presumptive Illnesses
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Chronic fatigue syndrome Fibromyalgia Irritable bowel syndrome Any diagnosed or undiagnosed illness that warrants a presumption of service connection as determined by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs Signs or symptoms of an undiagnosed illness include.
Va presumptive illnesses. Since this article was written Congress has overridden the Presidents veto of the NDAA. The presumptive illness es must have first appeared during active duty in the Southwest Asia theater of military operations or by December 31 2021 and be at least 10 percent disabling. Please contact our office today at 800 953-6224 with any questions.
Presumptive service connection may be granted for the following infectious diseases if found compensable within a specific time period. Presumptive diseases related to ionizing radiation For Veterans who participated in a radiation-risk activity during service including Atomic Veterans VA assumes that certain cancers are related to their exposure. Infectious Diseases Gulf War Syndrome and Multi-Symptom Illnesses.
We call these presumptive diseases. Aplastic anemia and other myelodysplastic syndromes. The VA Presumptive List has three categories for Gulf War disabilities.
Brucellosis Campylobacter jejuni Coxiella burnetti Q. We call these presumptive diseases. Atherosclerotic heart disease or hypertensive vascular disease including hypertensive heart disease and their complications including myocardial infarction congestive heart failure arrhythmia.
For Gulf War Veterans VA presumes that unexplained symptoms are related to Gulf War service if a Veteran has experienced them for six months or more. VA Presumptive List for Veterans Exposed to Contaminated Camp Lejeune Water Kidney cancer code 7528 Liver cancer code 7343 Non-Hodgkins lymphoma code 7715 Adult leukemia code 7703 Multiple myeloma code 7709 or code 7703 Parkinsons disease code 8004 Aplastic anemia and other myelodysplastic. VA presumes that the following health problems are related to herbicide exposure.
We refer to this as presumptive exposure. AL Amyloidosis Chronic B-cell Leukemias Chloracne Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 Hodgkins Disease Ischemic Heart Disease Multiple Myeloma Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma Parkinsons Disease Peripheral Neuropathy Early- Onset. Hypertension or high blood pressure is common among the elderly and if included would have added more than 160000 veterans to VA disability rolls in the next 10 years at an estimated cost of.
As a result Bladder Cancer Hypothyroidism and Parkinsonism will now be officially added to the Agent Orange presumptive list. To be eligible for a presumptive service connection Veterans must have served at Camp Lejeune for at least 30 days between August 1 1953 and December 31 1987 and later developed one of the following eight conditions. Veterans Diseases Associated with Agent Orange AL AmyloidosisA rare disease caused when an abnormal protein amyloid enters tissues or organs Chronic B-cell LeukemiasA type of cancer which affects white blood cells Chloracne or similar acneform diseaseA skin condition that occurs soon after.
And we assume that Veterans who served in certain locations were exposed to Agent Orange. Unlike the former both Gulf War Syndrome and Multi-Symptom Illnesses are vague and are prone to a high compensation denial rate.