The Board granted service connection for obstructive sleep apnea as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected disabilities and a 30 percent rating for hiatal hernia with GERD, but remanded the issue of entitlement to TDIU.
The deciding factor: The most probative evidence supports that the Veteran's sleep apnea is secondary to his service-connected disabilities, and his symptoms more nearly approximate being productive of considerable impairment of health. The duration of symptoms are not indicative of severe impairment of health for hiatal hernia with GERD.
- Claimed conditions
- Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Hiatal Hernia with GERD
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- February 27, 2025
- Citation
- A25018131
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