The Veteran's psychiatric disability, adjustment disorder unspecified, is proximately caused or aggravated by his service-connected disabilities (coronary artery disease and erectile dysfunction). The Board grants service connection for this condition.
The deciding factor: The competent medical evidence demonstrates that the Veteran has a psychiatric disability (adjustment disorder) that is proximately due to or the result of service-connected disabilities (coronary artery disease and erectile dysfunction).
- Claimed conditions
- adjustment disorder, unspecified
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 6, 2014
- Citation
- 1435005
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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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