The Board has determined that the veteran's claimed conditions, including anxiety disorder with somatization disorder and left great toe injury, were not incurred or aggravated by service. The evidence does not establish a nexus between these conditions and service.
The deciding factor: There is no competent medical evidence linking the current diagnoses to service, and there is insufficient continuity of symptomatology to meet the criteria for service connection under 38 C.F.R. § 3.303(b).
- Claimed conditions
- Anxiety Disorder with Somatization Disorder, Left Great Toe Injury
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 23, 2008
- Citation
- 0820544
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