The Veteran's service-connected prostatitis is currently rated at 20 percent, but the Board finds that his symptoms do not warrant a higher rating due to other significant disabilities.
The deciding factor: The Veteran has multiple significant non-service-connected conditions which limit his ability to function and affect his quality of life more than his prostatitis does.
- Claimed conditions
- Prostatitis, Muscular Dystrophy, Bowel Incontinence, Lower Limb Paraplegia, Stroke, Renal Cysts, Neurogenic Bladder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- August 30, 2010
- Citation
- 1032616
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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.
What you can do next
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- Denied
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