The Veteran's service-connected residuals of hepatitis are not shown to meet the criteria for a rating in excess of 10 percent, and his bilateral hearing loss is not compensable.
The deciding factor: The evidence does not show daily fatigue, malaise, or anorexia requiring dietary restriction or continuous medication, or incapacitating episodes with symptoms such as fatigue, nausea, vomiting, anorexia, arthralgia, and right upper quadrant pain having a total duration of at least two weeks but less than four weeks during the past 12-month period.
- Claimed conditions
- Residuals of Hepatitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 28, 2009
- Citation
- 0919856
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