What can I claim secondary to peripheral artery disease?
1 condition in the Repatriation Medical Authority's Statements of Principles list peripheral artery disease as a factor. If DVA has accepted your peripheral artery disease, each of these has a documented pathway to a further claim.
At a glance
- Accepted conditionPeripheral artery disease
- Conditions it may open1
- 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 peripheral artery disease, and another condition's SoP lists peripheral artery 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 peripheral artery 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.
Tinea
RH No. 55 of 2024 · BoP No. 56 of 2024
Reasonable Hypothesis — factor (8): “having peripheral artery disease of the lower limb at the time of clinical worsening of tinea affecting the foot” [worsening]
Balance of Probabilities — factor (8): “having peripheral artery disease of the lower limb at the time of clinical worsening of tinea affecting the foot” [worsening]
Other accepted conditions that also open tinea
If any of these is also on your file, it reaches some of the same conditions peripheral artery disease does.
What DVA means by peripheral artery 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.
Peripheral artery disease, for the purposes of the Statement of Principles, for the purposes of this Statement of Principles, peripheral artery disease means atherosclerosis of one or more arteries of the upper or lower limbs which causes partial or complete occlusion of those vessels and either: (a) warrants medical treatment; or (b) results in at least one of the following clinical manifestations: (i) chronic limb ischaemia; (ii) critical limb ischaemia; or (iii) intermittent claudication or other exertional leg pain symptoms that restrict walking ability.
Aggravation-only factors. In this instrument, subsections 9(19) to 9(37) apply only to material contribution to, or aggravation of, peripheral artery disease where it was already present before or during service. If service caused peripheral artery disease outright, those factors are not available to you.
RH No. 70 of 2020 · BoP No. 71 of 2020 · 25 factors
What could support a claim for peripheral artery disease?
The Statement of Principles for peripheral artery disease names 4 other conditions among its own factors. If any of these is already accepted on your file, it may be the factor that carries a peripheral artery disease claim — quoted here from the instrument.
Hypertension
Reasonable Hypothesis — factor (1): “having hypertension before the clinical onset of peripheral artery disease” [clinical onset]
Reasonable Hypothesis — factor (19): “having hypertension before the clinical worsening of peripheral artery disease” [worsening]
Diabetes mellitus
Reasonable Hypothesis — factor (2): “having diabetes mellitus before the clinical onset of peripheral artery disease” [clinical onset]
Reasonable Hypothesis — factor (20): “having diabetes mellitus before the clinical worsening of peripheral artery disease” [worsening]
Periodontitis
Reasonable Hypothesis — factor (15): “having periodontitis for at least the two years before the clinical onset of peripheral artery disease” [clinical onset]
Reasonable Hypothesis — factor (33): “having periodontitis for at least the two years before the clinical worsening of peripheral artery disease” [worsening]
Depressive disorder
Reasonable Hypothesis — factor (17): “having a clinically significant depressive disorder for at least five years before the clinical onset of peripheral artery disease” [clinical onset]
Reasonable Hypothesis — factor (35): “having a clinically significant depressive disorder for at least five years before the clinical worsening of peripheral artery disease” [worsening]
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