The Veteran's major depressive disorder and other specified trauma and stressor-related disorder are related to active service.,The Veteran’s current bilateral hearing loss disability was not incurred in, and is not otherwise related to, his active service. Service connection for hepatitis C is denied as it is not caused or aggravated by the service-connected hyperhidrosis.
The deciding factor: Service connection granted based on continuity of symptomatology since service.,Service connection denied due to lack of a causal nexus between current hearing loss and in-service noise exposure, and denial of secondary service connection for hepatitis C as there is no evidence of causation or aggravation.
- Claimed conditions
- Major depressive disorder, Other specified trauma and stressor-related disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 16, 2020
- Citation
- 20047546
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