The Veteran's claims for service connection for a sleep disorder, psychiatric condition, COPD, pleurisy of the right lung, and motor depression are all denied as they are not shown to be related to his military service or service-connected residuals of spontaneous pneumothorax.
The deciding factor: The evidence does not show that any of these conditions were incurred during service or caused by a service-connected disability.
- Claimed conditions
- sleep disorder, psychiatric condition (including depression and anxiety disorder)
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- February 5, 2010
- Citation
- 1005308
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What this means for you
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