The Board has granted service connection for a chronic headache disability as secondary to the veteran's service-connected chronic sinusitis with hay fever, and awarded a 10% disability rating.
The deciding factor: The veteran's headaches are a prominent symptom of her chronic rhinosinusitis (chronic sinusitis with hay fever).
- Claimed conditions
- chronic headache disability
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- January 4, 2007
- Citation
- 0700163
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