The Board has granted the application to reopen the claim of service connection for gout and found it well grounded. The claim of service connection for PTSD is also considered well grounded. However, the evaluation for a low back disability remains in appellate status.
The deciding factor: New evidence submitted after May 1984 was deemed new and material, allowing the reopening of the claim of service connection for gout. Service connection for PTSD is found to be well grounded based on credible supporting evidence of an in-service stressor and a link between current symptomatology and that stressor.
- Claimed conditions
- gout, post-traumatic_stress_disorder
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 5, 2000
- Citation
- 0009103
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