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Condition Data Explorer

Most sites tell you what a VA disability condition is. This page shows what actually happened when veterans appealed it: real grant rates by condition, why the Board denied service connection, which symptoms showed up in winning decisions, whether a private doctor's opinion moved the needle, and which conditions the Board connected as secondaries. All of it comes from RateMyVSO's original analysis of 1.9 million published Board of Veterans' Appeals decisions, and it refreshes every week as new decisions publish. Pick a condition below to see its numbers.

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Common-name shortcuts included: PTSD, GERD, COPD and others. Official diagnostic codes are unchanged.

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Full guides for the most-claimed secondary pairs.
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Source: RateMyVSO analysis of published BVA decisions. Appeal-level outcomes; initial claim results may differ.