The Board has denied the Veteran's claim of service connection for a genitourinary system disorder, finding that there is no evidence to support a link between her current condition and active service.
The deciding factor: VA examiners have opined that the Veteran's urinary frequency and urgency are more likely due to benign prostatic hypertrophy than to any incident during service.
- Claimed conditions
- genitourinary system disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 28, 2009
- Citation
- 0948677
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- Denied
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- Granted
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