The veteran's claims for service connection for coughing and shortness of breath, muscle and joint pain other than the spine, and neck and back pain were denied as they have been attributed to known clinical diagnoses and there is no evidence linking them to his service.
The deciding factor: The veteran's symptoms could not be linked to a known clinical diagnosis or established by competent medical evidence to be related to his service in the Persian Gulf War.
- Claimed conditions
- coughing and shortness of breath, muscle and joint pain other than the spine, neck and back pain
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 23, 2009
- Citation
- 0902504
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Decisions by this judge: 2,020 · Granted: 19% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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