Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for service connection of obstructive sleep apnea to obtain an addendum medical opinion addressing whether the Veteran's major depressive disorder with anxious distress caused or aggravated his sleep apnea.
The deciding factor: The January 2024 VA examiner did not provide a sufficient opinion on aggravation, and there was a pre-decisional duty to assist error due to the failure to consider obesity as an intermediate step in establishing service connection for sleep apnea on a secondary basis.
- 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 27, 2025
- Citation
- A25018005
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