The veteran's service-connected GERD with esophagitis is productive of considerable impairment of the veteran's health as a result of persistently recurrent epigastric distress with dysphagia, pyrosis and regurgitation; severe impairment of health is not shown.
The deciding factor: The veteran's symptoms include persistent epigastric distress with dysphagia, pyrosis, and regurgitation, which warrant a 30 percent rating under the applicable criteria.
- Claimed conditions
- gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) with esophagitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- May 23, 2008
- Citation
- 0817025
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.
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