The Board denied service connection for chronic fatigue syndrome and remanded the issue of service connection for sleep apnea.
The deciding factor: The weight of the evidence is against a finding that the Veteran has had, at any time during or approximate to the pendency of the claim, a current diagnosis for CFS that is etiologically related to his service, or is otherwise the result of service, to include an undiagnosed illness or medically unexplained chronic multisymptom illness.
- Claimed conditions
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), Sleep Apnea
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 23, 2025
- Citation
- 25007077
What this means for you
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