The Board has granted service connection for reactive airway disease and esophago-gastric reflux, finding that the evidence is in equipoise regarding whether these conditions existed prior to service.
The deciding factor: The medical opinions are divided on whether the veteran's reactive airway disease and esophago-gastric reflux pre-existed service or were incurred during service.
- Claimed conditions
- reactive airway disease, esophago-gastric reflux
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 10, 2000
- Citation
- 0003553
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Partly granted
The Board granted an initial disability rating of 60 percent for the service-connected reactive airway disease, but no higher. The appeal regarding entitlement to an earlier effective date was dismissed.
- Denied
The Board denied an initial compensable rating for reactive airway disease as the Veteran's symptoms did not meet the criteria for a compensable rating under the applicable diagnostic code.
- Granted
The Board granted an initial rating of 30 percent for the Veteran's service-connected reactive airway disease.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for left lower extremity radiculopathy and remanded several other claims, including those for a mental health condition, left shoulder disability, costochondritis, reactive airway disease, and hypertension. The claim for lumbosacral strain to include herniated disc was dismissed.
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