Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for a bilateral hearing loss disability, finding that the evidence does not support a causal relationship between his in-service noise exposure and current hearing loss.
The deciding factor: The VA medical opinions of record found no significant permanent shift in hearing threshold beyond test variability from entrance to separation examination, and concluded there was no nexus between the Veteran's bilateral hearing loss and military noise exposure.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral hearing loss disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 27, 2025
- Citation
- A25092590
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