The Board denied the appellant's claims for service connection for cause of death, accrued benefits, and nonservice-connected death pension benefits due to lack of evidence linking the veteran's death to his active military service.
The deciding factor: There was no credible medical evidence showing that arteriosclerosis was incurred during active duty service or manifested within the presumptive one-year period after separation from service.
- Claimed conditions
- degenerative arteriosclerosis, senility
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 26, 2004
- Citation
- 0410816
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