context: We also note that Mr. Floore is service connected for diabetes with a 20% disability rating, yet, other than mentioning that his peripheral neuropathy is diabetes related, the Board did not discuss the effects of diabetes, if any, occupational or otherwise. Neither party included a medical examination report addressing diabetes in the ROP and it may be that there are no occupational effects from diabetes, but an assessment of TDIU entitlement based on the combined effects of all service-connected disabilities should address all such disabilities to facilitate judicial review of that assessment.
citation_a.signal: see
citation_a.identifier: 7 Vet.App. 517, 527
citation_a.parenthetical: Board's statement "must be adequate to enable a claimant to understand the precise basis for the Board's decision, as well as to facilitate review in this Court"
citation_a.sentence: See Allday v. Brown, 7 Vet.App. 517, 527 (1995) (Board’s statement “must be adequate to enable a claimant to understand the precise basis for the Board’s decision, as well as to facilitate review in this Court”); see also Hatlestad v. Brown, 5 Vet.App. 524, 529 (1993) (“[T]he central inquiry in determining whether a veteran is entitled to TDIU is whether that veteran’s service-connected disabilities alone are of sufficient severity to produce unemployability.”).
citation_b.signal: see also
citation_b.identifier: 5 Vet.App. 524, 529
citation_b.parenthetical: "[T]he central inquiry in determining whether a veteran is entitled to TDIU is whether that veteran's service-connected disabilities alone are of sufficient severity to produce unemployability."
citation_b.sentence: See Allday v. Brown, 7 Vet.App. 517, 527 (1995) (Board’s statement “must be adequate to enable a claimant to understand the precise basis for the Board’s decision, as well as to facilitate review in this Court”); see also Hatlestad v. Brown, 5 Vet.App. 524, 529 (1993) (“[T]he central inquiry in determining whether a veteran is entitled to TDIU is whether that veteran’s service-connected disabilities alone are of sufficient severity to produce unemployability.”).