The Board granted service connection for diverticulitis and assigned a 20% rating effective February 12, 2001. The veteran's symptoms were rated as moderate with mild to moderate functional impairment.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found the veteran's symptoms to be moderate without objective findings supporting a higher rating.
- Claimed conditions
- diverticulitis, colon condition
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- January 22, 2004
- Citation
- 0402267
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