The Board denied service connection for bronchial asthma and bronchitis, finding no current diagnosis of the conditions and insufficient evidence linking them to military service.
The deciding factor: The medical records do not show a current diagnosis of bronchial asthma or bronchitis, and there is no probative evidence linking these conditions to military service.
- Claimed conditions
- bronchial asthma, bronchitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 8, 2006
- Citation
- 0628174
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