Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection for OSA and spasmodic dysphonia to obtain additional medical opinions.
The deciding factor: Remand is necessary due to inadequate VA medical opinions and to address theories of entitlement, including direct service connection and secondary causation by a service-connected psychiatric disability.
- Claimed conditions
- Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA), Spasmodic Dysphonia
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 26, 2025
- Citation
- A25017457
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