The Board granted service connection for urinary frequency, secondary to the Veteran's service-connected hypertension.
The deciding factor: The private medical opinion and the Veteran's lay statements provided sufficient evidence that his urinary frequency is caused by his service-connected hypertension.
- Claimed conditions
- urinary frequency
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- October 11, 2024
- Citation
- A24065337
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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- Denied
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands all claims for service connection to the AOJ for further development, including obtaining relevant VA and private medical records and scheduling a VA examination.
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