The Board has awarded a 60 percent rating for the veteran's service-connected seronegative rheumatoid arthritis, finding that his episodes of severe pain and swelling in his hands and wrists are productive of definite impairment of health.
The deciding factor: The veteran experienced severely incapacitating flare-ups of rheumatoid arthritis, which resulted in full use of his hands and wrists when not experiencing a flare-up.
- Claimed conditions
- seronegative rheumatoid arthritis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- August 1, 2003
- Citation
- 0318662
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