Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection for OSA and MDD to obtain additional medical opinions addressing direct, secondary, and aggravation theories of service connection.
The deciding factor: The existing medical opinions are inadequate due to lack of well-reasoned analysis or consideration of intermediate steps like obesity as an underlying condition.
- Claimed conditions
- Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA), Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 21, 2025
- Citation
- A25090752
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