Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the appeal to obtain medical opinions addressing direct service connection, secondary service connection due to tinnitus, and secondary service connection with obesity as an intermediate step.
The deciding factor: Insufficient evidence exists to establish a relationship between sleep apnea and any of the claimed theories of service connection; therefore, further medical opinion is necessary.
- Claimed conditions
- sleep apnea
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 28, 2025
- Citation
- A25102728
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