The Board denied service connection for high cholesterol, finding that it is not a disability for which service connection can be granted.
The deciding factor: High blood serum cholesterol does not represent such 'disability' as contemplated by the controlling legal criteria and is characterized as a mere laboratory finding, not in and of itself a disability.
- Claimed conditions
- High Cholesterol
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 14, 2006
- Citation
- 0635340
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Granted
The Veteran's service-connected PTSD has caused or aggravated his sleep apnea, headaches, and high cholesterol. Service connection for these conditions is granted.
- Granted
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