The Board found that the veteran's gastropathy, which is a result of pain medication prescribed for service-connected right knee and low back disabilities, was proximately due to or the result of his service-connected conditions. As such, service connection for gastropathy secondary to service-connected disability was granted.
The deciding factor: The examiner opined that some of the veteran's gastropathy is likely related to NSAID use, which is prescribed for treatment of service-connected right knee and low back disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- stomach disability, hiatal hernia
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 0%
- Decision date
- January 22, 2004
- Citation
- 0402235
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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.
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