Granted
The Board granted service connection for hypothyroidism based on a medical nexus between the Veteran's in-service herbicide exposure and their current diagnosis.
The deciding factor: The private medical opinion provided by the Veteran sufficiently demonstrated a direct causation of the current condition from an in-service incurrence, placing the evidence in equipoise and allowing application of the benefit-of-the-doubt rule.
- Claimed conditions
- hypothyroidism
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- March 6, 2025
- Citation
- A25020603
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