The veteran's service connection claims for various disabilities are granted, with a 10 percent rating assigned for the upper gastrointestinal disability (GERD).
The deciding factor: Service connection is established for GERD as due to an undiagnosed illness.
- Claimed conditions
- hearing loss disability, earaches, skin disorder (tinea pedis, rash on both feet, and rash on the back of legs), eye disorders (including exophoria, glaucoma, blurred/double vision, diplopia, convergence insufficiency, increased cup to disc ratio, triplopia, presbyopia, eyeball throbbing, and myopia), respiratory disorder, sleep disorder (to include sleep apnea), neurological or psychiatric disability (including muscle weakness, loss of strength, neurogenic bladder, fatigue, headaches, anxiety reaction, hand and facial numbness, binary problems, memory loss/amnesia, insomnia, poor concentration, depression, learning abnormality, nightsweats, dizziness, dysthymic disorder, and speech pathology/impediment), cardiovascular disability (including pain or pressure in the chest, palpitations, hypertension, and tachycardia), genitourinary disability (including dysuria, dyspareunia, urinary or kidney problems, enlarged prostate, enlarged spleen, right lower quadrant pain, painful intercourse, increased nocturia, prostatitis, kidney infections, and small right varicocele), upper gastrointestinal disability (GERD)
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- February 2, 2006
- Citation
- 0603053
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.
What you can do next
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Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Dismissed
The appeal for a compensable rating for left ear hearing loss, service connection for right ear hearing loss, and bilateral vision condition was dismissed. Service connection for hypertension, congestive heart failure, and coronary artery disease was denied.
- Denied
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