The Board granted service connection for diabetes as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected obstructive sleep apnea, but remanded the claim for service connection for erectile dysfunction due to a lack of adequate medical opinion.
The deciding factor: The August 2022 VA examiner's opinion regarding diabetes was found inadequate and not entitled to probative weight. The nurse practitioner's opinion supported the Veteran's claim, leading to the grant of service connection for diabetes. For erectile dysfunction, both VA examiners' opinions were deemed inadequate.
- Claimed conditions
- diabetes, erectile dysfunction
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- October 9, 2024
- Citation
- A24064410
What this means for you
A partial grant means some issues were granted while others were denied or remanded — common in multi-issue claims. Look at which issues went which way, and how each was argued.
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