The Board has determined that the veteran's death was not caused by a service-connected disability, and thus denied the claim for service connection for the cause of death.
The deciding factor: There is no medical evidence linking the veteran's death to his service-connected disabilities or to service.
- Claimed conditions
- hypostatic pneumonia, status post cerebrovascular accidents
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 18, 2008
- Citation
- 0839593
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- Denied
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- Partly granted
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- Denied
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