The Board denied service connection for heart disease, hypertension, liver disease (including cirrhosis of the liver), erectile dysfunction, and diabetes mellitus all claimed as due to inservice herbicide exposure. The Veteran's service records do not show any evidence of such conditions during or after service.
The deciding factor: The Veteran did not have a diagnosed condition related to his in-service herbicide exposure that was shown to be present within one year of separation from service, and the diseases were not found to be presumptively associated with Agent Orange exposure. The Board also noted that there is no evidence of any herbicide exposure during service.
- Claimed conditions
- Heart disease, Hypertension, Liver disease (including cirrhosis of the liver), Erectile dysfunction, Diabetes mellitus
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 27, 2010
- Citation
- 1019698
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