Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for a psychiatric disability, diagnosed as mood disorder due to a general medical condition and unspecified anxiety disorder, which was found to be secondary to the Veteran's service-connected hepatitis C. The issues related to compensation under 38 U.S.C. § 1151 for ventral hernia repair with mesh and for hypertension, nausea and vomiting, blurred vision, and renal failure were remanded.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the evidence favored a finding that the Veteran's psychiatric disability was proximately due to his service-connected hepatitis C.
- Claimed conditions
- mood disorder due to a general medical condition, anxiety disorder not otherwise specified, hypertension, nausea and vomiting, blurred vision, renal failure
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 10, 2025
- Citation
- 25003312
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