The Veteran's claims for service connection have been reopened, but the Board has not found sufficient evidence to grant any of the individual conditions. The decision is mixed as some issues were granted and others denied.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's obesity was previously denied due to lack of a diagnosed disability related to military service. New evidence did not change this conclusion. For hypertension, the Veteran does not have documented hypertension or isolated systolic hypertension. For diabetes mellitus, it is not attributable to service-connected psychiatric disability.
- Claimed conditions
- overweight, weight management, bowel discharge
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 22, 2019
- Citation
- 19165148
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,454 · Granted: 23% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
A partial grant means some issues were granted while others were denied or remanded — common in multi-issue claims. Look at which issues went which way, and how each was argued.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for obesity and overweight, finding that these conditions are not considered disabilities subject to VA compensation purposes.
- Granted
The Veteran meets the basic eligibility requirements for educational assistance benefits under Chapter 30, Title 38, United States Code, due to his involuntary separation from service after completing two years and eight months of active duty. His physical conditions (overweight, excess fat, incapacity to perform sit-ups satisfactorily, and incapacity to perform a two-mile run) were found not to be the result of willful misconduct but interfered with his performance of duty.
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