The Board granted service connection for the veteran's hiatal hernia disability and assigned a 30 percent rating, finding that it most closely approximated symptoms of persistently recurrent epigastric distress with dysphagia, pyrosis (heartburn), and regurgitation, accompanied by substernal pain, productive of considerable impairment of health.
The deciding factor: The veteran's hiatal hernia disability was found to result in persistent symptoms that warranted a 30 percent evaluation under Diagnostic Code 7346, as it did not meet the criteria for a higher rating based on more severe impairment of health or other specified symptoms combinations.
- Claimed conditions
- hiatal hernia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- June 4, 2004
- Citation
- 0414441
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