The Veteran's OSA and COPD have been granted service connection as secondary to his service-connected UDD.,Service connection for diabetes and ED has been denied.
The deciding factor: Both OSA and COPD were found to be related to the Veteran's service-connected UDD, while diabetes and ED were not linked to his military service.
- Claimed conditions
- Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA), Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Diabetes, Erectile Dysfunction (ED)
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 30, 2020
- Citation
- 20008157
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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