The Board has determined that the Veteran's anxiety disorder with sleep disturbance is proximately due to his service-connected psoriasis and thus grants service connection for this condition.
The deciding factor: A VA examiner found no causal connection between the Veteran's anxiety disorder with sleep disturbance and his alleged sexual assault in service, while a private opinion based on medical literature concluded that the Veteran's psoriasis contributed to the development of his anxiety disorder with sleep disturbance.
- Claimed conditions
- anxiety disorder with sleep disturbance
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 11, 2010
- Citation
- 1017405
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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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