The Veteran's chronic gastritis is granted as secondary to his service-connected right shoulder disability. The claim for lumbar spondylosis is remanded.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found that the Veteran’s chronic gastritis was proximately due to or caused by medications taken for his service-connected right shoulder disability.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic gastritis, lumbar spondylosis
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- January 23, 2020
- Citation
- 20005542
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.
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