Remanded (sent back)
The appeal is remanded to correct a pre-decisional duty to assist error. The Board needs new opinions on whether the Veteran's psychiatric disorder was aggravated by service-connected heart disability and/or diabetes.
The deciding factor: The VA examiners did not address whether the Veteran's service-connected conditions aggravated his acquired psychiatric disorder.
- Claimed conditions
- acquired psychiatric disorder, adjustment disorder with anxiety and depressed mood, congestive heart failure with atrial flutter status post ablation (heart disability), diabetes mellitus, type II
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 28, 2025
- Citation
- A25007552
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