Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for service connection of obstructive sleep apnea to correct duty-to-assist errors, including obtaining an adequate medical opinion and outstanding SSA records.
The deciding factor: Remand is necessary due to pre-decisional duty-to-assist errors, specifically regarding an adequate medical opinion addressing the impact of psychiatric medications on sleep apnea and whether the service-connected psychiatric disability caused or aggravated obesity which in turn led to sleep apnea.
- Claimed conditions
- obstructive sleep apnea
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 6, 2025
- Citation
- A25011318
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