The Board granted an initial disability rating of 10 percent for nausea as secondary to service-connected chronic lymphocytic leukemia, but remanded the claims for service connection for a respiratory disorder and GERD.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's symptoms more nearly approximated intermittent abdominal pain with epigastric fullness akin to that associated with bloating without evidence of a structural gastrointestinal disease, warranting an initial 10 percent rating under DC 7356. The claims for service connection for respiratory disorder and GERD were remanded.
- Claimed conditions
- Nausea
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- October 23, 2025
- Citation
- A25091700
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Decisions by this judge: 1,990 · Granted: 35% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
A partial grant means some issues were granted while others were denied or remanded — common in multi-issue claims. Look at which issues went which way, and how each was argued.
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