Sleep apnea decisions — 2025

The Board remands the claim for service connection of obstructive sleep apnea to obtain an adequate medical opinion regarding its etiology and relationship to the Veteran's service-connected conditions.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for a heart disability, hypertension, and sleep apnea due to inadequate medical opinions regarding their relationship to service in Southwest Asia.

The Board remands the claims for an initial compensable rating for tension headaches, service connection for a skin condition, asthma, a disability other than asthma manifested by difficulty breathing through the nose (sinusitis), obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), and a disability manifested by fatigue due to pre-decisional duty to assist errors.

The Board granted service connection for obstructive sleep apnea, finding the evidence to be in equipoise regarding its relation to the Veteran's military service.

The Board granted an increased rating of 30 percent for obstructive sleep apnea, resolving reasonable doubt in the Veteran's favor based on evidence supporting persistent daytime hypersomnolence.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for obstructive sleep apnea and an initial compensable disability rating for ulcerative colitis to correct pre-decisional duty to assist errors.

The appeal for an evaluation in excess of 10 percent and an effective date earlier than June 6, 2023 for the 10 percent rating for GERD was dismissed due to a withdrawal by the Veteran.

The Board remands the claim for obstructive sleep apnea as secondary to posttraumatic stress disorder and major depressive disorder due to an inadequate medical opinion.

The Board granted service connection for obstructive sleep apnea, finding the evidence to be in equipoise regarding its relation to the Veteran's military service.

The Board granted service connection for obstructive sleep apnea, finding the evidence to be in equipoise regarding its onset during active service.

The Board granted service connection for obstructive sleep apnea, finding the evidence to be in equipoise regarding its onset during active service.

The Board granted service connection for tinnitus, but remanded the claims for psychiatric disorder, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), right shoulder disorder, lumbosacral spine disorder, left lower extremity radiculopathy, and right knee strain for further development.

The Board granted service connection for obstructive sleep apnea, finding the evidence to be in equipoise regarding its onset during active service.

The Board granted service connection for obstructive sleep apnea, finding that it is at least as likely as not caused by the combined effects of the Veteran's service-connected tinnitus and in-service toxic exposure risk activity.

The Board remands the claim for service connection of sleep apnea to obtain a more comprehensive medical opinion regarding its relationship with the Veteran's service-connected PTSD and other conditions.

The Board denied service connection for a psychiatric disability, but granted a 50 percent evaluation for obstructive sleep apnea.

The Board granted service connection for a headache disorder and assigned a 30 percent rating for GERD, while denying higher ratings for the lumbosacral strain with vertebral fracture, left lower extremity sciatic radiculopathy, right lower extremity sciatic radiculopathy, and bilateral hearing loss.

The Board granted service connection for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected right shoulder and left knee strains, with obesity as an intermediate step.

The Board denied service connection for PTSD, a psychiatric disability (anxiety and/or crying at night), and sleep apnea as there was no competent evidence of current diagnoses or credible supporting evidence that the claimed in-service stressors occurred.

The Board granted service connection for sleep apnea, resolving reasonable doubt in the Veteran's favor and finding that her sleep apnea had its onset during active service.