Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for obstructive sleep apnea, to include as secondary to the service-connected disability of hiatal hernia with GERD, but denied an earlier effective date for the grant of service connection for migraines.
The deciding factor: The evidence was in relative equipoise regarding whether the Veteran's obstructive sleep apnea is caused by his military service and/or his service-connected hiatal hernia with GERD, leading to a grant based on the benefit-of-the-doubt rule.
- Claimed conditions
- migraines, obstructive sleep apnea
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 7, 2025
- Citation
- A25086644
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