The Board has reopened the claim for service connection due to new and material evidence, including private medical records showing gastrointestinal problems related to medication used for a service-connected knee disability. The Board finds that these symptoms are proximately due to or the result of the veteran's service-connected left knee disability.
The deciding factor: The veteran's current gastrointestinal issues are found to be secondary to his service-connected left knee disability, specifically the use of Naprosyn medication prescribed for his knee condition.
- Claimed conditions
- gastrointestinal disability, stomach condition, ulcers/ulcer condition, hiatal hernia, acid reflux
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 27, 2006
- Citation
- 0639861
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