Sleep apnea decisions — 2025

The Board granted service connection for obstructive sleep apnea, finding that the Veteran's symptoms of sleep disturbances during active military service were related to his current diagnosis.

The Veteran's service-connected PTSD alone prevents him from obtaining and maintaining gainful employment from July 28, 2022, but no earlier.

The Board remands the claim for service connection of sleep apnea to obtain a medical opinion on whether it is secondary to the Veteran's service-connected PTSD.

The Board dismissed the appeals for service connection for sleep apnea, a migraine headache disorder, and bilateral tinea pedis as they were not proper appeals under the Appeals Management Act appellate system.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for a headache disability and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) to address deficiencies in the duty to assist, including obtaining medical opinions that consider all theories of entitlement.

The Board denied an earlier effective date for the grant of service connection for sleep apnea, as the claim was not received until August 31, 2022.

The Board denied service connection for the veteran's claimed conditions, including left elbow condition, right elbow condition, left knee condition, right knee condition, sleep apnea, and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), as there was no evidence of an in-service incurrence or aggravation of these conditions.

The Board granted service connection for obstructive sleep apnea, finding that the Veteran's obesity, caused by his service-connected musculoskeletal disabilities, was a substantial factor in causing the claimed secondary disability.

The Board remands the claim for an addendum medical opinion to determine the nature and etiology of the Veteran's obstructive sleep apnea.

The Board granted service connection for obstructive sleep apnea, finding that the evidence supports a direct link between the Veteran's symptoms during and after active duty.

The Board dismissed the claims for service connection and denied increased ratings, as there was no evidence supporting a diagnosis of TBI, adiposity-based chronic disease, or carpal tunnel syndrome related to service. The claim for obstructive sleep apnea was dismissed due to a previous grant of service connection.

The Board denied service connection for obstructive sleep apnea and denied an increased rating for the specified trauma and stress-related disorder, but granted an effective date of September 1, 2020, for the award of service connection for a trauma and stress-related psychiatric disorder.

The appeal for service connection for sleep apnea was dismissed due to concurrent election issues.

The Board remands the issues of entitlement to service connection for obstructive sleep apnea and an acquired psychiatric disorder, including PTSD, anxiety disorder, and depression, due to pre-decisional duty-to-assist errors.

The Board denied service connection for obstructive sleep apnea, granted an effective date of January 1, 2014, for the award of service connection for reactive airway disease and hypertension.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for a left shoulder and lower back condition due to insufficient evidence linking these conditions to the Veteran's active service.

The Board denied the Veteran's claim for an earlier effective date for service connection of obstructive sleep apnea, as the earliest possible effective date was already assigned.

The Board granted service connection for obstructive sleep apnea as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected posttraumatic stress disorder and an initial 10 percent rating for a scar of the left upper extremity associated with left wrist ganglion cyst.

The Board remands the claim for service connection of obstructive sleep apnea to correct a pre-decisional duty to assist error.

The appeal seeking service connection for obstructive sleep apnea was dismissed due to a procedural error in the filing of concurrent review requests.