The veteran's claims for service connection are denied as his conditions do not meet the criteria for presumptive service connection under VA regulations.
The deciding factor: The veteran's conditions, while related to service in the Gulf War, do not qualify for presumptive service connection due to lack of objective indications of a qualifying chronic disability or evidence that they were caused by an undiagnosed illness or supervening condition during his service.
- Claimed conditions
- acute gastroenteritis, heart disease (history of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation and mitral valve prolapse), chronic headaches, sleeplessness, shakes, cold sweats, residuals of a right ankle sprain, residuals of a left knee injury, shortening of the left leg, familial osteochondromas of the right heel (claimed as bone spur), chronic fatigue, motion sickness, residuals of bruxism (rotten teeth), sore hands, chronic low back disorder, bone growth of the non-dominant left thumb
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 4, 2003
- Citation
- 0333897
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