The Board found that the COPD is not proximately due to or the result of a service-connected disease or disability, specifically tuberculosis. The veteran's claim for TDIU was also pending.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner concluded that TB is not recognized as a common cause of COPD and unlikely to have caused the current COPD.
- Claimed conditions
- Chronic Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Pulmonary Tuberculosis
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 19, 2000
- Citation
- 0016163
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