The Veteran's left knee gout is granted as service connected and found to be related to his service-connected hypertension.
The deciding factor: The Board determined that the left knee gout was at least as likely as not caused by the Veteran's service-connected hypertension.
- Claimed conditions
- left knee gout
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 30, 2024
- Citation
- 24004535
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Decisions by this judge: 1,863 · Granted: 26% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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