The VA has determined that the veteran's gouty arthropathy, currently rated at 60 percent disabling, does not warrant a higher rating.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence did not show active gout or any residual impairment of health objectively supported by examination findings sufficient to warrant a higher rating than 60 percent.
- Claimed conditions
- gouty arthropathy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- June 30, 2005
- Citation
- 0517800
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Partly granted
The veteran's claims for service connection for hypertension, hypertensive heart disease, chronic kidney disease, and anemia were granted. The claims for bladder cancer, erectile dysfunction, gouty arthropathy were denied. The claim for transient ischemic attack was remanded.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for a right knee disability, including gouty arthropathy, finding that there was no evidence of onset during or within one year after service and no relationship to any period of active service.
- Granted
The Board finds that the evidence is in equipoise and, resolving reasonable doubt in favor of the Veteran, service connection for gouty arthropathy is granted.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided that the Veteran's claim for a higher rating for chronic joint pain of the left hand and bilateral lower extremities due to gouty arthropathy needs further development, including a new VA examination.
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