The Board denied service connection for a bladder disability, to include urinary frequency, as the evidence did not support a finding that such conditions were incurred in or caused by active duty.
The deciding factor: The April 2020 and August 2024 VA examiners found no causal relationship between the Veteran's current overactive bladder and his service, including any herbicide exposure during service in Vietnam.
- Claimed conditions
- Bladder disability, Urinary frequency
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- February 4, 2025
- Citation
- 25001620
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,645 · Granted: 19% (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
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What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claim for compensation under 38 U.S.C. § 1151 is remanded due to inadequate VA medical opinions regarding the causation and aggravation of her bladder disability.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board has determined that the Veteran does not have a current diagnosis of urinary frequency and therefore, service connection for this condition is denied.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied service connection for a bladder condition, finding that the evidence is not persuasive in establishing a relationship to service or secondary to a service-connected disability.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's urinary frequency is due to his service-connected hypertension and diabetes, and the Board has granted service connection for this condition as secondary to those disabilities.
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