The Board found that the veteran's cause of death was not caused by a service-connected disability and denied the claim for service connection for the cause of death.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence did not show a causal relationship between any service-connected condition and the veteran's cause of death.
- Claimed conditions
- cardiorespiratory arrest, chronic renal failure, urate nephropathy, anemia, pulmonary emphysema, pulmonary tuberculosis, benign prostatic hypertrophy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 27, 2001
- Citation
- 0126787
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What this means for you
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- Remanded (sent back)
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