The Board found that the veteran's death was not caused by a service-connected disability, and thus denied the claim for service connection for the cause of his death.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence did not show any association between the veteran's service-connected post-gastrectomy syndrome and his failure to thrive or malnutrition/failure to thrive condition resulting in his death.
- Claimed conditions
- failure to thrive, malnutrition, progressive dementia
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 28, 2000
- Citation
- 0002251
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
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