The Board remands the claims for service connection for diabetes, sleep apnea, prostate cancer, urinary incontinence, residuals of gallbladder removal, gout and low back disability, as well as entitlement to a TDIU prior to April 20, 2023, due to inadequate medical opinions.
The deciding factor: The remand is required because the previous medical opinions are inadequate to support decisions on the Veteran's claims. The Board finds that additional medical opinions are needed to address specific theories of entitlement raised by the Veteran regarding secondary service connection using obesity as an intermediate step and other potential causal links between his service-connected disabilities and the claimed conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- diabetes mellitus, type II, sleep apnea, prostate cancer, urinary incontinence, residuals of gallbladder removal, gout, low back disability
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 16, 2025
- Citation
- 25014980
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