The Board has denied the reopening of the claim for service connection for CMT disease due to lack of new and material evidence.
The deciding factor: The submitted evidence does not relate to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the claim, nor does it raise a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 8, 2009
- Citation
- 0938327
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