Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for a higher rating for lumbosacral strain and service connection for depression and anxiety as secondary to tinnitus.
The deciding factor: The evidence was persuasively against a finding of nexus for a direct or secondary service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbosacral strain, major depressive disorder, recurrent, with anxious distress (claimed as depression), other specified disruptive, impulse-control, and conduct disorder with recurrent behavioral outburst of insufficient frequency (claimed as anxiety)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 28, 2025
- Citation
- A25007204
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