The Board has denied the veteran's claims for service connection for Crohn's disease, abdominal pain, peripheral neuropathy, and a pulmonary disorder due to lack of evidence supporting these conditions or their relationship to malaria or Agent Orange exposure.
The deciding factor: There is no medical evidence confirming the diagnoses of Crohn's disease, abdominal pain, peripheral neuropathy, or a pulmonary disorder, nor does there exist sufficient evidence linking these conditions to service or presumed Agent Orange exposure.
- Claimed conditions
- Crohn's disease, abdominal pain, peripheral neuropathy, pulmonary disorder
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 21, 2006
- Citation
- 0629931
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What this means for you
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