The Board granted service connection for erectile dysfunction as secondary to hypertension and assigned a 20 percent rating for bilateral hearing loss from May 11, 2023, through August 9, 2024.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's testimony of knee and shoulder pain following lifting and moving heavy drums containing Agent Orange during service was found unpersuasive. The Board granted service connection for erectile dysfunction as secondary to hypertension based on the VA examiner's findings.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral knee condition, bilateral shoulder condition, erectile dysfunction, hypothyroidism with xerosis, bilateral hearing loss, hypertension, low back condition (remanded), residuals of colon cancer (remanded), left lower extremity peripheral neuropathy (remanded), right lower extremity peripheral neuropathy (remanded), nasal condition (remanded)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- May 21, 2025
- Citation
- A25045700
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 766 · Granted: 40% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for service connection for hypertension and peripheral neuropathy of the bilateral upper and lower extremities due to insufficient medical opinions regarding their etiology.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's claim for an earlier effective date for diabetes mellitus type II with erectile dysfunction was denied as the evidence did not show that he had been diagnosed and manifested to at least a 10 percent disability rating on or prior to May 8, 2001.
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