The Veteran's gastrointestinal disability, which includes symptoms such as epigastric distress with dysphagia, pyrosis, regurgitation, melena, occasional constipation and weight loss without anemia, is productive of considerable impairment of health. The Board has granted a 30 percent rating for the entire appeal period.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's symptoms meet the criteria for a 30 percent rating under Diagnostic Code 7346 (hernia hiatal).
- Claimed conditions
- gastrointestinal disorder, epigastric distress, dysphagia, pyrosis, regurgitation, melena, constipation, weight loss
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- April 19, 2018
- Citation
- 1823892
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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
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- Dismissed
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