What can I claim secondary to coeliac disease?
4 conditions in the Repatriation Medical Authority's Statements of Principles list coeliac disease as a factor. If DVA has accepted your coeliac disease, each of these has a documented pathway to a further claim.
At a glance
- Accepted conditionCoeliac disease
- Conditions it may open4
- SourceRMA SoPs
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How a secondary claim works
Some Statement of Principles factors are not about service at all — they name another condition. Where DVA has already accepted your coeliac disease, and another condition's SoP lists coeliac disease as a factor, that part of the next claim is already established on your file. How a secondary claim works, in full →
Conditions that list coeliac disease as a factor
Quoted from the instrument. A pathway existing is not the same as a claim succeeding — each factor carries thresholds your record has to satisfy.
Cardiomyopathy
RH No. 57 of 2024 · BoP No. 58 of 2024
Reasonable Hypothesis — factor (11): “having coeliac disease at the time of clinical onset or clinical worsening” [onset and worsening]
This factor appears in the Reasonable Hypothesis instrument only, which applies to operational service.
Malignant neoplasm of the small intestine
RH No. 80 of 2023 · BoP No. 81 of 2023
Reasonable Hypothesis — factor (2): “having coeliac disease for at least 5 years before the clinical onset of malignant neoplasm of the small intestine” [clinical onset]
Balance of Probabilities — factor (2): “having coeliac disease for at least 5 years before the clinical onset of malignant neoplasm of the small intestine” [clinical onset]
Myocarditis
RH No. 17 of 2024 · BoP No. 18 of 2024
Reasonable Hypothesis — factor (8): “having one of the following systemic inflammatory diseases: (a) antiphospholipid syndrome; (b) coeliac disease; (c) dermatomyositis; (d) Graves disease; (e) Hashimoto disease; (f) IgG4-related disease; (g) inflammatory bowel disease; (h) mixed connective tissue disease; (i) polymyositis; (j) psoriatic arthritis; (k) rheumatoid arthritis; (l) scleroderma (progressive systemic sclerosis); (m) Sjögren syndrome; or (n) systemic lupus erythematosus; at the time of clinical onset or clinical worsening” [onset and worsening]
Balance of Probabilities — factor (8): “having one of the following systemic inflammatory diseases: antiphospholipid syndrome; coeliac disease; dermatomyositis; Graves disease; Hashimoto disease; inflammatory bowel disease; polymyositis; rheumatoid arthritis; scleroderma (progressive systemic sclerosis); Sjögren syndrome; or systemic lupus erythematosus; at the time of clinical onset or clinical worsening” [onset and worsening]
Osteoporosis
RH No. 66 of 2024
Reasonable Hypothesis — factor (9): “having one of the following gastrointestinal diseases at the time of clinical onset or clinical worsening; (a) chronic exocrine pancreatic insufficiency; (b) cirrhosis of the liver; (c) coeliac disease; or (d) inflammatory bowel disease” [onset and worsening]
This factor appears in the Reasonable Hypothesis instrument only, which applies to operational service.
Other accepted conditions that also open cardiomyopathy
If any of these is also on your file, it reaches some of the same conditions coeliac disease does.
What DVA means by coeliac disease
A claim is tested against the definition first. If the diagnosis on your file does not meet this wording, the factors below never get reached — so it is worth checking that what your doctor wrote matches what the instrument requires.
Coeliac disease, for the purposes of the Statement of Principles, for the purposes of this Statement of Principles, coeliac disease: (a) means a malabsorption disorder in susceptible people due to immune-mediated mucosal inflammation of the small intestine, characterised by villous atrophy and crypt hyperplasia, and triggered by hypersensitivity to ingested gluten; and (b) excludes: (i) non-coeliac gluten sensitivity; (ii) non-coeliac wheat protein sensitivity; and (iii) wheat allergy.
Aggravation-only factors. In this instrument, subsections 9(1) to 9(6) apply only to material contribution to, or aggravation of, coeliac disease where it was already present before or during service. If service caused coeliac disease outright, those factors are not available to you.
RH No. 29 of 2020 · BoP No. 30 of 2020 · 4 factors
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