The Board denied service connection for a heart condition and arthritis of the bilateral feet, finding that new evidence did not raise a reasonable possibility of substantiating these claims.
The deciding factor: The preponderance of the competent medical evidence showed no relationship between any current conditions and active service or exposure to herbicide agents.
- Claimed conditions
- heart condition (apart from hypertension, hypertensive vascular disease, and stroke), arthritis of the bilateral feet
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 5, 2010
- Citation
- 1012735
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