The Veteran's service connection claims for left hip, right hip, left shoulder, and right shoulder rheumatoid arthritis are granted. The claim for service connection for sleep apnea is remanded due to insufficient medical opinion regarding its relationship to the Veteran's service-connected PTSD.
The deciding factor: The decision grants service connection based on new evidence provided by the Veteran's private doctor linking his current rheumatoid arthritis to his Gulf War service exposures, and it also grants the claim for sleep apnea as secondary to his service-connected PTSD.
- Claimed conditions
- left hip rheumatoid arthritis, right hip rheumatoid arthritis, left shoulder rheumatoid arthritis, right shoulder rheumatoid arthritis
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- Gulf War
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 10, 2024
- Citation
- A24030539
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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.
What you can do next
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- Remanded (sent back)
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