The Board denied service connection for the cause of the veteran's death and denied DIC under 38 U.S.C.A. § 1151, finding that the conditions were not incurred in or aggravated by service.
The deciding factor: The conditions did not have a direct link to the veteran's military service and were unrelated to his service-connected condition of bilateral weak feet.
- Claimed conditions
- Pneumonia, Metastatic carcinoma of the transverse colon, Gastrointestinal bleeding, Diabetes mellitus, Alzheimer's disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 4, 2004
- Citation
- 0414486
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