The Board denied the claims for service connection for the cause of death, nonservice-connected death pension benefits, accrued benefits, and burial benefits due to a lack of evidence linking any of the veteran's conditions to his service or qualifying service.
The deciding factor: There is no medical evidence or competent opinion indicating that the veteran's service-connected residuals of shell fragment wounds played any causative role in his death. The diseases listed as causes of death did not begin during service or until many years thereafter, and there is no indication they were caused by or aggravated by his service-connected conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- Systemic bacterial infection, Pneumonia, Urinary tract infection, Iron deficiency anemia with hypotension secondary to gastrointestinal bleed, Azotemia with hyperkalemia, Hypertension atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease with left ventricle enlargement
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 8, 2008
- Citation
- 0804600
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- Denied
The Veteran's death was not caused by any service-connected disability, and the criteria for DIC under 38 U.S.C. § 1318 were not met.
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