The Board denied service connection for pulmonary tuberculosis and heart disease, finding no evidence of a current diagnosis or that the conditions were related to service. The claim for beriberi was not reopened due to lack of new and material evidence.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not establish a link between the claimed conditions and the veteran's service, nor did it provide a current diagnosis of heart disease or beriberi.
- Claimed conditions
- pulmonary tuberculosis, heart disease (ischemic heart disease, beriberi heart disease, atherosclerotic heart disease, hypertensive vascular disease (including hypertensive heart disease) and their complications (including myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, arrhythmia)), beriberi, peptic ulcer disease, post-traumatic osteoarthritis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 28, 2008
- Citation
- 0810284
What this means for you
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What you can do next
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