The Veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder is proximately due to his service-connected bilateral hearing loss and tinnitus. The Board finds that service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder is warranted on a secondary basis.
The deciding factor: Service connection granted based on the finding that the Veteran's dysthymia and major depression are a result of his service-connected bilateral hearing loss and tinnitus.
- Claimed conditions
- Acquired psychiatric disorder, Degenerative disease of the lumbar spine
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 31, 2010
- Citation
- 1012028
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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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