The Board denied service connection for the cause of the veteran's death due to lack of evidence linking the condition to service or a service-connected disability.
The deciding factor: Adult respiratory distress syndrome was not present during service or for many years thereafter, and was not caused by any incident of service or by a service-connected disability.
- Claimed conditions
- adult respiratory distress syndrome
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 11, 2001
- Citation
- 0100747
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- Denied
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