The Board denied service connection for an eye disability, a cardiovascular disability (to include hypertension), and a lung disability. The petition to reopen the claim for service connection for PTSD was also denied.
The deciding factor: There is no evidence of current disabilities or any nexus between service and these conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- Cardiovascular disability (to include hypertension), Eye disability, Lung disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 19, 2005
- Citation
- 0501474
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Decisions by this judge: 2,196 · Granted: 17% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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