The Board denied service connection for chronic heart disability, photophobia, and periodontal disease. Service connection was granted for blepharitis.
The deciding factor: Service connection could not be established for the claimed conditions due to lack of evidence or legal sufficiency.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic heart disability, photophobia, periodontal disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 29, 2003
- Citation
- 0318150
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