The Board has granted the Veteran's claim for service connection for GERD as secondary to his service-connected PTSD.
The deciding factor: The opinion provided by NP G.U. established a relationship between the Veteran's GERD and his service-connected PTSD, which was supported by the Veteran's lay statements.
- Claimed conditions
- Gastrointestinal reflux disease (GERD)
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 1, 2024
- Citation
- A24062505
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,113 · Granted: 47% (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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- Granted
The Veteran's claim for an earlier effective date for service-connected GERD was denied as the evidence did not show that he submitted a formal or informal claim prior to June 6, 2021.,The Veteran's claim for an initial 30 percent evaluation for service-connected GERD was granted based on his symptoms of persistent epigastric distress with dysphagia, pyrosis, and regurgitation.
- Partly granted
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- Denied
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