The Veteran's chronic gastritis is granted as secondary to the service-connected bilateral knee disabilities. The appeal was reopened due to new evidence received since the January 2009 rating decision.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner opined that the gastritis is at least as likely as not caused by the medications for the service-connected knee disabilities, which increase stomach acidity.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic gastritis
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 0%
- Decision date
- April 30, 2019
- Citation
- 19133358
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.
- Denied
The Board denied an earlier effective date for the grant of service connection for chronic gastritis and a compensable rating for chronic gastritis.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for chronic gastritis, finding that there was no evidence of a nexus between the condition and his period of active service.
- Dismissed
The appeal for service connection for chronic gastritis was denied due to the untimely filing of the Board Appeal request.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for tinnitus and a lumbar spine disability, while denying service connection for bilateral hearing loss, chronic gastritis, gastroesophageal reflux disease, irritable bowel syndrome, and assigning a 20 percent rating for residuals of a neuroendocrine tumor of the stomach.
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