The Board remands the claim for service connection of obstructive sleep apnea to correct pre-decisional duty to assist errors.
The deciding factor: The March 2025 medical opinion did not address whether the Veteran's obstructive sleep apnea was aggravated by his service-connected chronic kidney disease with residuals of prostate cancer or diabetes mellitus (type II) with cataracts, and the record does not include another medical opinion addressing aggravation due to those service-connected conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- obstructive sleep apnea
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 25, 2025
- Citation
- A25102196
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