The Board denied service connection for the cause of death, finding that there is no nexus between the Veteran's dementia and his military service.
The deciding factor: The weight of the medical evidence does not establish a link between the Veteran's in-service chemical exposure and his later-developed dementia.
- Claimed conditions
- Alzheimer's dementia, frontotemporal dementia
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 14, 2010
- Citation
- 1022046
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