Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for diabetes, hypertension, and erectile dysfunction as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected acquired psychiatric disorder. The claim for a compensable rating for bilateral hearing loss was denied.
The deciding factor: The decision was based on the evidence supporting the intermediate step of obesity between the service-connected psychiatric condition and the claimed disabilities, with the exception of the hearing loss which did not meet the criteria for a compensable rating.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral Hearing Loss, Diabetes Mellitus Type II, Hypertension, Erectile Dysfunction
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 14, 2025
- Citation
- A25088208
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