The Board finds that the veteran's asthma is as likely as not aggravated by his service-connected allergic rhinitis. The Board also finds that there is no evidence of a neck injury in service and insufficient medical evidence to establish continuity of symptomatology, thus denying service connection for residuals of a neck injury.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner could not render a definitive opinion on the etiology of the veteran's asthma due to lack of information regarding the fume inhalation episode. The Board finds that the preponderance of evidence is against finding a current disability related to service, as there was no in-service injury or disease and no continuity of symptomatology.
- Claimed conditions
- Asthma, Residuals of a Neck Injury
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 23, 2008
- Citation
- 0836399
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