The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for various conditions, finding that none of them were incurred or aggravated by service.
The deciding factor: Service records did not show any evidence of dental disorders, psychiatric disorders, neurologic disorders, seizure disorders, COPD, coronary artery disease, thoracic aortic aneurysm, chronic throat infections, or low back injuries during service. The veteran's claims were based on direct service connection rather than presumptive exposure to Agent Orange or other conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- dental disorder, psychiatric disorder, neurologic disorder, seizure disorder, COPD, coronary artery disease, thoracic aortic aneurysm, chronic infection of the throat, residuals of low back injury
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 19, 2007
- Citation
- 0736363
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