The Veteran's current diagnosed exercise-induced asthma is found to be related to service, and the Board grants service connection for this condition.
The deciding factor: Medical evidence supports a link between the Veteran's current exercise-induced asthma and his reported symptoms during service, resolving all doubts in favor of the Veteran.
- Claimed conditions
- exercised induced asthma
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 11, 2010
- Citation
- 1001556
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