What can I claim secondary to graves disease?
2 conditions in the Repatriation Medical Authority's Statements of Principles list graves disease as a factor. If DVA has accepted your graves disease, each of these has a documented pathway to a further claim.
At a glance
- Accepted conditionGraves disease
- Conditions it may open2
- 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 graves disease, and another condition's SoP lists graves 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 graves 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.
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 (8): “having one of the following endocrine abnormalities for a continuous period of at least 1 year within the 10 years before clinical onset or clinical worsening; (a) Cushing syndrome; (b) Graves disease; (c) hyperprolactinaemia; (d) hyperthyroidism or thyrotoxicosis; (e) hypogonadism (including menopause); (f) primary hyperparathyroidism; or (g) type 1 diabetes mellitus” [onset and worsening]
This factor appears in the Reasonable Hypothesis instrument only, which applies to operational service.
Other accepted conditions that also open myocarditis
If any of these is also on your file, it reaches some of the same conditions graves disease does.
What DVA means by graves 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.
Graves disease, for the purposes of the Statement of Principles, for the purposes of this Statement of Principles, Graves disease means a chronic autoimmune disease primarily affecting the thyroid gland, in which thyroid antibodies activate the thyroid-stimulating hormone receptor, causing thyroid hyperplasia and excessive thyroid hormone synthesis and secretion.
Aggravation-only factors. In this instrument, subsections 9(12) to 9(23) apply only to material contribution to, or aggravation of, graves disease where it was already present before or during service. If service caused graves disease outright, those factors are not available to you.
RH No. 7 of 2022 · BoP No. 8 of 2022 · 23 factors
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