The Board has granted a 30 percent disability rating for the veteran's service-connected hiatal hernia/GERD and status post partial gastric resection for duodenal ulcer disease, effective from July 2001.
The deciding factor: The preponderance of evidence shows that the veteran's service-connected condition is productive of no more than a considerable impairment of health, warranting a 30 percent disability rating under Diagnostic Code 7346.
- Claimed conditions
- hiatal hernia/gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), status post partial gastric resection for duodenal ulcer disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- December 27, 2005
- Citation
- 0534903
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