Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection for sleep apnea, hypertension, and hypertensive kidney disease due to duty to assist errors in not obtaining outstanding VA treatment records and inadequate medical opinions.
The deciding factor: Remand is necessary to obtain adequate VA medical opinion regarding whether the Veteran's conditions had an onset in service or are otherwise related to service, as well as secondary service connection for hypertension and hypertensive kidney disease due to her service-connected psychiatric disability.
- Claimed conditions
- sleep apnea, hypertension, hypertensive kidney disease, chronic, stage 2
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 30, 2025
- Citation
- A25110953
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