The Board has granted service connection for a genitourinary disability, including urinary tract infections, as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected urinary incontinence.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence supports that the Veteran's genitourinary symptoms are proximately due to her service-connected urinary incontinence.
- Claimed conditions
- genitourinary disability, urinary tract infections
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 40%
- Decision date
- January 22, 2024
- Citation
- 24003126
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Decisions by this judge: 2,500 · Granted: 29% (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
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for vaginal conditions, gastric bypass with residual hernias, bilateral knee conditions, bilateral shin splints, and bilateral foot conditions as they were not found to be related to the Veteran's service or service-connected disabilities.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's appeals for initial compensable rating for bilateral hearing loss and service connection prior to June 27, 2024, for a genitourinary disability were dismissed due to the Veteran's death.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for a genitourinary disability due to insufficient evidence of a current disability.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for tinea capitis, hypertension, and degenerative disc disease of the lumbar spine but denied service connection for sinusitis and urinary tract infections. The claims for PTSD, hearing loss, chest pain, right hip condition, left hip condition, and right knee condition were remanded.
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