The Board granted a 30 percent rating for bronchial asthma, effective December 8, 1998. The veteran's seizure disorder was not service-connected due to lack of evidence showing its onset in or within one year after service.
The deciding factor: Service connection for the seizure disorder could not be established as there was no medical evidence linking it to an injury sustained during service and the earliest post-service medical record indicating a diagnosis of epilepsy was dated more than two decades after separation from service.
- Claimed conditions
- Seizure Disorder, Bronchial Asthma
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- January 26, 2001
- Citation
- 0102300
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