The Board finds that the service-connected peptic dyspepsia with history of duodenal ulcer did not cause or materially contribute to the veteran's death. The evidence does not demonstrate a relationship between the cause of the veteran's death and any disability related to his period of service.
The deciding factor: The service-connected disability (peptic dyspepsia) did not aid in producing death, nor was it etiologically related to the primary cause of death (gunshot wound).
- Claimed conditions
- Gunshot wound, Acute hemorrhage, Perforation of left lung
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 18, 2001
- Citation
- 0127444
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