The Board has decided to remand the claim for service connection of sleep apnea as secondary to bronchial asthma due to a duty-to-assist error in providing an inadequate VA medical opinion.
The deciding factor: The medical opinion provided did not address whether the Veteran's bronchial asthma aggravated her sleep apnea, and did not consider the role of obesity as an intermediate step between service-connected conditions and the secondary condition.
- Claimed conditions
- sleep apnea syndromes, bronchial asthma
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 10, 2024
- Citation
- A24064876
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 134 · Granted: 38% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
A remand sends an issue back for more development, often a new examination or missing records. It does not award the benefit or decide the final outcome. The original decision explains the additional work ordered.
What you can do next
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- Dismissed
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