The Board has granted service connection for chronic headaches and assigned a 30 percent evaluation, effective March 30, 2012. The Veteran's symptoms of sleep apnea, GERD, and fatigue are secondary to his service-connected conditions.
The deciding factor: The Veteran presented evidence showing that his headaches were due to his service-connected PTSD and other disabilities, warranting a secondary service connection determination.
- Claimed conditions
- sleep apnea, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), fatigue
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- January 11, 2018
- Citation
- 1802623
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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.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for a direct service connection opinion and an adequate secondary service connection aggravation opinion.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for asthma and remanded claims for insomnia and sleep apnea. Other conditions were denied.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for various conditions, including sinusitis, elbows condition, cervical condition, erectile dysfunction, kidney condition, sleep apnea, wrists condition, asthma, shoulders condition, ankles condition, eye condition (bilateral dry macular degeneration), peripheral vascular disease (heart condition), and rhinitis.
- Dismissed
The appeal for service connection for sleep apnea is dismissed as the benefit sought has been granted, making the case moot.
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