The Board denied reopening of the claim for service connection for peptic ulcer disease with duodenal ulcer, finding that new and material evidence had not been received.
The deciding factor: The newly submitted evidence did not provide a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim as it did not include medical opinions linking the current condition to service or showing compensable disability within one year of separation from service.
- Claimed conditions
- peptic ulcer disease with duodenal ulcer
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 21, 2007
- Citation
- 0740348
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- Denied
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- Remanded (sent back)
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