Sleep apnea decisions — 2025

The Board remands the claims for a rating in excess of 10 percent for the Veteran's lumbar spine disability and service connection for various disabilities, including Graves' disease, an acquired psychiatric disability, migraines, narcolepsy, obstructive sleep apnea, and TDIU.

The Board granted service connection for sleep apnea and a right hand/wrist disorder, but denied service connection for a bilateral foot disability, back disorder, sciatic pain in the right leg, sciatic pain in the left leg, and sinusitis.

The Board granted service connection for the Veteran's low back disability, including lumbosacral strain and lumbar spine degenerative arthritis with DDD.

The Board granted service connection for acne, to include as secondary to a service-connected psychiatric disorder, and dismissed the appeals for lipoma, migraine headaches, and sleep apnea condition. The claim for a neck and cervical spine condition was remanded.

The Board denied service connection for several conditions, including bronchial asthma, respiratory insufficiency, chronic fatigue syndrome, irritable bowel syndrome, and functional abdominal pain syndrome. However, it granted service connection for right knee tendinitis, left knee tendinitis, and lumbosacral strain.

The Board granted an effective date of July 30, 2022 for the award of a 50 percent rating for generalized anxiety disorder and major depressive disorder (psychiatric disorder) but denied earlier effective dates for other conditions.

The Board denied a disability rating in excess of 20 percent for lumbosacral strain with degenerative disc disease and dismissed the appeal for service connection for a right ankle condition.

The Board granted restoration of the 50 percent rating for unspecified trauma and stressor-related disorder, granted an initial 50 percent rating for right upper extremity neuropathy, denied a higher rating for obstructive sleep apnea, and denied entitlement to TDIU. The Board also remanded service connection for type 2 diabetes mellitus.

The Board granted service connection for right shoulder strain and tension headaches, denied service connection for sinusitis, and granted initial ratings of 70 percent, but no higher, for depressive disorder, 40 percent, but no higher, for lumbosacral strain, and 20 percent, but no higher, for left and right lower extremity radiculopathy.

The Board granted service connection for left hip bursitis and obstructive sleep apnea as secondary to PTSD.

The Veteran's claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder was granted, while claims for other conditions were denied. A compensable rating and TDIU were also denied.

The Board granted service connection for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) secondary to diabetes mellitus and/or GERD, but denied service connection for peripheral neuropathy of the bilateral upper and lower extremities and a right shoulder disability.

The Board granted service connection for a disability manifested by fatigue, due to an undiagnosed illness, and remanded the claims for service connection for a gastrointestinal condition, hiatal hernia, and obstructive sleep apnea.

The Board denied an earlier effective date for service connection for obstructive sleep apnea, finding that the Veteran's claim was not submitted within one year of the enactment of the PACT Act.

The Board granted service connection for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).

The Board denied the Veteran's appeal for a disability rating in excess of 10 percent for bulimia nervosa, as there was no evidence showing self-induced weight loss to less than 85 percent of expected weight.

The Board restored the 20 percent ratings for thoracolumbar spine disability, left lower extremity radiculopathy affecting femoral and sciatic nerves, denied service connection for GERD and IBS, and remanded the claim for obstructive sleep apnea.

The Board remands the claim for a lumbosacral intervertebral disc syndrome and strain as additional evidence is needed to properly evaluate the disability.

The Board granted direct service connection for acne, rosacea, and cysts status post excision, as well as secondary service connection for irritated seborrheic keratoses. The initial rating in excess of 10 percent for multiple scars of the forehead from residual surgical removal of lesions was denied.

The Veteran withdrew his appeal for service connection for a sleep disorder, to include obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).