Sleep apnea decisions — 2024

Service connection granted for PTSD related to in-service stressors.,Service connection granted for adjustment disorder with anxious features secondary to service-connected oral cancer.

The Board has remanded several issues related to the Veteran's claims for service connection, including those for an acquired psychiatric disability, insomnia, sleep apnea, migraines, GERD, and dizziness. The issues of allergic rhinitis and sinusitis have been withdrawn by the Veteran.

The Board has granted the Veteran's claim for service connection for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) as secondary to his service-connected disabilities, finding that there is equipoise evidence supporting this determination.

The Board has determined that further development is needed to address the etiology of the Veteran's obstructive sleep apnea and its relation to his service-connected disabilities, including left hip replacement, left knee, and ankles with weight gain.

The Board has dismissed the appeal for service connection of sleep apnea, as it was already decided in a previous January 2024 decision and the March 2022 AMA appeal was erroneously docketed.

The Veteran's claim for service connection for sleep apnea was granted in an October 2022 rating decision, which constitutes a full grant of benefits sought on appeal. As the benefit sought has been granted, the appeal is dismissed.

The Board denied reinstatement of the Veteran's appeal due to his VA Form 9 not being timely filed in response to a March 2020 statement of the case.

The Veteran's lumbosacral, cervical, right shoulder, and left shoulder strains have been granted service connection.,Further evaluations are needed to determine the nature of any arm disabilities.

The Veteran's service-connected disabilities have rendered him unemployable since October 26, 2018. An effective date of this day is granted for the award of TDIU.

The Board has granted the Veteran's claim for service connection for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) as secondary to his service-connected intervertebral disc syndrome (IVDS).

The Board has granted service connection for OSA as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected left knee disability, finding that it is at least as likely as not that the OSA developed due to weight gain resulting from chronic pain in the left knee.

The Board has decided to remand the case due to a duty to assist error in the February 2021 rating decision, where the opinion did not address relevant evidence and failed to provide an adequate rationale for its conclusion.

The Veteran's claims for diabetes mellitus, obstructive sleep apnea, cold weather injury such as frostbite of the upper and lower extremities, and headaches have been denied due to a lack of current diagnoses.

The Veteran's service connection for hemorrhoids is granted, while his claims for bilateral eye refractive error and obstructive sleep apnea are denied.

The Board has denied service connection for gout, sleep apnea, and bilateral hearing loss. The Veteran's claims are being remanded to obtain a medical opinion regarding the etiology of his bilateral hearing loss.,Service connection is not granted for gout, sleep apnea, or bilateral hearing loss as there is no evidence of in-service injury or disease that could be related to these conditions.

The Board has remanded the claim for service connection of OSA as secondary to service-connected disabilities due to insufficient medical nexus opinions.

Your secondary service connection claim for sleep apnea has been dismissed because your primary service connection was granted in a previous decision.

The Board has decided to remand the case due to insufficient medical opinions regarding the Veteran's sleep apnea and its relationship to service, PTSD, and obesity.

The Board has determined that there were pre-decisional duty to assist errors and remands the cases for further development.

Effective dates of June 6, 2014, and no earlier, have been granted for service connection for lumbosacral spine strain with degenerative arthritis, cervical spine strain, degenerative arthritis, and intervertebral disc syndrome, and PTSD.