The Board has reopened the claims for service connection for heart disorder, irregular menses with endometriosis, chronic genitourinary disease, bilateral fibrocystic breast disease, and allergic rhinitis with alleged sinusitis. The claim for service connection for bronchitis remains denied as new evidence is not significant enough to reopen it.
The deciding factor: The submitted evidence does not provide substantial new information that would change the outcome of the previous denial regarding these conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- heart disorder, irregular menses with endometriosis, chronic genitourinary disease, bilateral fibrocystic breast disease, allergic rhinitis and sinusitis, bronchitis
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 2, 2003
- Citation
- 0314590
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