Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for service connection for GERD to obtain a medical opinion addressing whether the Veteran's service-connected unspecified anxiety disorder, diabetes mellitus type II, and hypertension caused or aggravated his obesity, which in turn led to his GERD.
The deciding factor: Remand is required due to a pre-decisional duty-to-assist error regarding an opinion on obesity as an intermediate step between the service-connected disabilities and GERD.
- Claimed conditions
- gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 5, 2025
- Citation
- A25096457
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