Granted
The Board granted service connection for sleep apnea and CAD as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected temporomandibular joint dysfunction.
The deciding factor: The January 2021 VA medical opinion supported both causation and aggravation of the conditions by the service-connected temporomandibular joint dysfunction, leading to a full grant of benefits.
- Claimed conditions
- sleep apnea, coronary artery disease (CAD), with myocardial infarction, hypertensive heart disease, and valvular heart disease
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 7, 2025
- Citation
- A25021373
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