The Board has granted service connection for bilateral hearing loss. Service connection for rheumatoid arthritis is remanded due to insufficient evidence linking the condition to service.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner's opinion regarding the onset and causation of rheumatoid arthritis was not sufficiently clear or supported by clinical findings in the record.
- Claimed conditions
- hearing loss, rheumatoid arthritis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 12, 2003
- Citation
- 0312576
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