The Board has determined that the evidence received since the September 1997 rating decision is not new and material, and thus does not provide a basis to reopen the veteran's claim of entitlement to service connection for hyperlipidemia.
The deciding factor: The new evidence submitted by the appellant is cumulative or redundant and does not raise a reasonable possibility of substantiating the service connection claim for hyperlipidemia.
- Claimed conditions
- hyperlipidemia
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 8, 2006
- Citation
- 0613279
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