The Veteran's depression is found to be secondary to his service-connected interstitial lung disease, warranting service connection.
The deciding factor: Depression was proximately due to the increasing severity of the service-connected interstitial lung disease.
- Claimed conditions
- Interstitial Lung Disease, Acquired Psychiatric Disorder (Anxiety and Depression)
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 12, 2018
- Citation
- 1822098
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What this means for you
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