The Veteran's Raynaud's disease is currently rated at 60 percent, effective June 22, 2007. The rating for irritable bowel syndrome remains at 30 percent.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence supports the current ratings as it shows frequent attacks and multiple digital ulcers without autoamputation of digits.
- Claimed conditions
- Reynaud's disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- March 27, 2015
- Citation
- 1513267
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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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for scleroderma and Reynaud's disease, finding that both conditions are etiologically linked to the Veteran's active-duty service.
- Denied
The Board denied entitlement to service connection for Reynaud's disease and continued denial of service connection for reactive arthritis. The Veteran's sinus headaches were rated at 10 percent, but the allergic rhinitis was not compensable.
- Denied
The Veteran's service connection claim for Reynaud's disease was denied, and his claim for an increased rating for reactive arthritis was not granted.
- Granted
The Board has determined that the Veteran's service-connected Reynaud's disease contributed substantially and materially to his fatal arrhythmia, which was the cause of death. Therefore, service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death is granted.
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