The Board granted service connection for osteopenia as secondary to medications used for asthma and granted a 60% rating for laryngeal dyskinesia, finding the Veteran's condition severe enough to warrant this higher rating.
The deciding factor: The evidence showed that the Veteran’s long-term use of steroid medication for his service-connected asthma resulted in osteopenia. For laryngeal dyskinesia, the Board found that the Veteran had a constant inability to speak above a whisper, meeting the criteria for a 60% rating.
- Claimed conditions
- osteopenia, laryngeal dyskinesia
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- July 26, 2018
- Citation
- 18121081
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