Sleep apnea decisions — 2025

The Board remands the claims for service connection for various conditions due to an inadequate VA medical opinion.

The Board granted service connection for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

The Board granted an earlier effective date of January 22, 2004, for adjustment disorder with anxiety.

The Board dismissed the appeals for service connection for hearing loss, malignant growths of the genitourinary system (prostate cancer), and Parkinson's disease due to improper election of review options. The claim for sleep apnea was remanded for further development.

The Board remands the claim for a back disorder to obtain an addendum opinion that considers all evidence of record, including lay statements and medical records.

The Board denied an effective date prior to June 7, 2016 for the grant of service connection for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and a rating in excess of 50 percent for OSA. The issues of entitlement to TDIU and an earlier effective date for DEA under 38 USC chapter 35 are remanded.

The Board remands the issue of entitlement to service connection for obstructive sleep apnea, as secondary to service-connected pulmonary fibrosis, due to an inadequate VA examination and a need for additional opinions regarding causation and aggravation.

The Board granted service connection for a lumbosacral strain with intervertebral disc syndrome based on the Veteran's in-service back injury and current disability.

The Board granted service connection for obstructive sleep apnea and psychiatric disability, to include unspecified depressive disorder with anxious distress.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for various conditions, including psychiatric disorders and musculoskeletal issues, due to a pre-decisional duty to assist error.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for a right knee disability, lumbar spine disability, and obstructive sleep apnea to correct duty to assist errors.

The Board granted service connection for obstructive sleep apnea, finding that it was caused by the Veteran's service-connected disabilities leading to obesity.

The Board granted initial disability ratings of 20 percent for the Veteran's service-connected left and right lower extremity radiculopathy, sciatic nerve. The claims for increased ratings and service connection were remanded.

The Board remands the claim for service connection for obstructive sleep apnea to obtain an adequate medical opinion that addresses the etiology of the Veteran's condition, including direct service connection, aggravation by service-connected disabilities, and obesity as an intermediate step.

The Board remands the claims for a liver condition and obstructive sleep apnea to correct duty-to-assist errors, including failing to provide VA examinations or nexus opinions.

The Board granted service connection for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

The Board granted service connection for a neck condition, sinusitis, and sleep apnea.

The appeal for service connection of sleep apnea syndrome was dismissed due to the untimely filing of a VA Form 10182.

The Board granted service connection for hypertension, lumbosacral strain with degenerative arthritis, left knee arthritis, and right knee arthritis. OSA was denied, and the PTSD rating was also denied.

The Board denied various claims for increased ratings and effective dates, including those for tinnitus, wrist scars, lower extremity radiculopathy, bulimia nervosa, psychiatric disability, benign neutropenia, herpes II, GERD, plantar fasciitis, and TDIU.