The Board has granted service connection for gout and remanded the issue of increased disability rating for hypertension.
The deciding factor: Gout was diagnosed in service and continued after discharge, meeting the criteria for direct service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- gout, hiatal hernia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 9, 2003
- Citation
- 0334262
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