The Board has determined that the Veteran's bilateral hip disabilities are not caused or aggravated by his service-connected knee disabilities, and thus denied both claims for secondary service connection.
The deciding factor: The VA medical opinions found no relationship between the Veteran's diagnosed bilateral hip disabilities and his service-connected knee disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative joint disease, left hip, Degenerative joint disease, right hip
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 31, 2017
- Citation
- 1749129
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