The Board has determined that service connection is not warranted for hemochromatosis or infectious hepatitis.
The deciding factor: There was no evidence of significant disease during the veteran's military service and there was no evidence of any form of liver damage until 1992.
- Claimed conditions
- hemochromatosis, hepatitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 24, 2006
- Citation
- 0621898
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for the Veteran's cause of death due to hepatitis, finding no evidence that it was related to his military service.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for additional development due to a lack of substantial compliance with previous remand directives.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands all claims for service connection for various conditions secondary to hemochromatosis due to the need for additional development.
- Partly granted
The Veteran was granted an effective date of August 29, 2022 for the award of service connection for chest pain and shortness of breath but denied an earlier effective date for abdominal pain. Hemochromatosis remains under review.
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