The Board has determined that the veteran's systemic arthritis does not warrant a compensable rating, and his peptic ulcer disease with gastritis and residuals of hiatal hernia repair is rated at 10 percent. The preponderance of evidence is against granting higher ratings for either condition.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence does not support the presence or manifestations of systemic arthritis that would warrant a compensable rating, and the peptic ulcer disease with gastritis and residuals of hiatal hernia repair has been adequately rated at 10 percent under Diagnostic Code 7307 for peptic ulcers.
- Claimed conditions
- Percutaneous Nerve Stimulation (PNST), Systemic Arthritis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- January 21, 2004
- Citation
- 0402154
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 362 · Granted: 24% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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