The Board granted service connection for an acid reflux disorder based on evidence of complaints and treatment during service, as well as continuity of symptomatology thereafter.
The deciding factor: Service connection was warranted due to the Veteran's reported symptoms during service, medical records confirming treatment, and credible lay testimony of ongoing symptoms post-service.
- Claimed conditions
- acid reflux disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 19, 2009
- Citation
- 0906131
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Decisions by this judge: 2,456 · Granted: 23% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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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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