The Board has determined that the Veteran's depression, chronic headaches, and hematuria are related to his service-connected conditions. The remaining issues of service connection for left arm disability, right arm disability, left shoulder disability, and right shoulder disability have been granted.
The deciding factor: The VA examiners found no current diagnosis or objective evidence of a chronic urinary condition of hematuria, resolving the issue.
- Claimed conditions
- depression, chronic headaches, hematuria, left arm disability, right arm disability, left shoulder disability, right shoulder disability
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 4, 2018
- Citation
- 1800294
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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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