The Board granted service connection for hypertension as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected OSA, restored a 60 percent rating for asthma with obstructive sleep apnea, and granted a 20 percent rating for dry eye syndrome during the period on appeal from September 17, 2023, to October 11, 2024. The Board denied a higher rating for unspecified depressive disorder.

The deciding factor: The evidence was in relative equipoise as to whether the Veteran's HTN and dry eye syndrome were proximately due to or the result of his service-connected OSA and asthma with OSA respectively, while there was persuasive evidence against finding that the Veteran's unspecified depressive disorder had manifested with more than occupational and social impairment.

Claimed conditions

hypertension (HTN), asthma with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), dry eye syndrome, unspecified depressive disorder, left hip condition

How they argued it

Secondary to another service-connected condition

Exposure basis

None

Rating assigned

60%

Decision date

November 14, 2025

Citation

A25099133

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