The Board denied service connection for traumatic arthritis of the right hip, left knee, and coronary artery disease as there was no evidence linking these conditions to the veteran's period of active military service.
The deciding factor: There is a prolonged gap between the veteran's discharge from service in 1945 and the first objective medical evidence of the claimed conditions in 1998 for right hip arthritis, 2000 for CAD, and 2004 for left knee arthritis. No competent medical evidence links these current conditions to his period of active military service.
- Claimed conditions
- Traumatic arthritis of the right hip, Traumatic arthritis of the left knee, Coronary artery disease (CAD)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 28, 2009
- Citation
- 0902967
What this means for you
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