The Board of Veterans' Appeals has determined that the veteran's arthritis of the hips is service-connected as secondary to his service-connected bilateral flatfoot.
The deciding factor: The examiner found a link between the service-connected bilateral foot disability and the current hip condition, allowing for secondary service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- arthritis of the hips
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- December 6, 2000
- Citation
- 0031839
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board allowed the benefit or issue identified in this decision. Review the original order: other issues in the same appeal may have a different outcome, and this decision does not predict another claim.
What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Denied
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- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided to remand the case due to insufficient medical opinions regarding the Veteran's claimed conditions and their relationship to service. The issues of entitlement to service connection for various gastrointestinal and hip disabilities are being reviewed again.
- Whole decision: Partly granted
The Veteran's claim for service connection for pneumonia has been dismissed as the claim was recharacterized and granted in a previous rating decision.,Service connection for heart arrhythmia is denied. The Board found that there is no persuasive weight of evidence to support the Veteran's contention that his current condition is related to military service.
- Whole decision: Dismissed
The Veteran's appeal for service connection for arthritis of the hands, hips, legs and ankles, to include as secondary to medications prescribed for service-connected residuals of breast cancer and/or Graves' disease is dismissed.
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