Partly granted
The Board denied a rating greater than 30 percent for keratoconjunctivitis sicca, not specified as Sjogren's, bilateral, blepharochalasis, bilateral (claimed as bilateral eye pain), and denied service connection for bilateral hearing loss. However, the Board granted service connection for a right knee disorder and a low back disorder.
The deciding factor: The evidence was persuasively in favor of finding that the Veteran's right knee pain resulting in functional impairment was caused or aggravated by service-connected disabilities, while there was no evidence supporting a rating greater than 30 percent for eye conditions or bilateral hearing loss.
- Claimed conditions
- keratoconjunctivitis sicca, not specified as Sjogren's, bilateral, blepharochalasis, bilateral (claimed as bilateral eye pain), right knee disorder, low back disorder, bilateral hearing loss
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- November 10, 2025
- Citation
- A25097629
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