The Board has granted service connection for a chronic respiratory disability, finding that the evidence is in equipoise and granting the benefit of the doubt to the veteran. The issue of an initial rating in excess of 10 percent for PFB will be remanded.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence is at least in relative equipoise on whether the veteran's exposure to inhalation hazards during active service caused a chronic respiratory disability, and thus the benefit of the doubt doctrine applies.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic respiratory disability
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 16, 2007
- Citation
- 0721301
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