The Board has granted service connection for a liver disorder and assigned a 10 percent rating. The issue of an increased rating for chronic fatigue due to undiagnosed illness is addressed in the remand section.
The deciding factor: The VA specialist identified the veteran's liver disorder as macrovesicular steatosis, which was attributable to reported in-service toxin exposure during the Persian Gulf War.
- Claimed conditions
- liver disorder, chronic fatigue due to undiagnosed illness
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- May 12, 2003
- Citation
- 0308930
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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- Dismissed
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