Granted
The Board granted service connection for the veteran's headaches, GERD, and vertigo as secondary to their service-connected tinnitus and diabetes.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the evidence was in approximate balance regarding the nexus between the conditions, and applied the benefit-of-the-doubt rule in favor of the Veteran.
- Claimed conditions
- headaches, migraines and migraine variants, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (vertigo)
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 6, 2025
- Citation
- A25000768
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