The Board has determined that the veteran does not have PUD attributable to military service and denied his claim for service connection. His rating for hemorrhoids remains at 10 percent.
The deciding factor: There is no evidence of a current diagnosis of peptic ulcer disease (PUD) in the veteran's medical records, which precludes establishing service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- Pesticide exposure, Peptic ulcer disease (PUD)
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 2, 2002
- Citation
- 0209056
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What this means for you
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