The Board has denied the Veteran's attempts to reopen his claims for service connection for arteriosclerosis and pulmonary tuberculosis, finding that the new evidence received since the last final rating decisions does not relate to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the claims.
The deciding factor: The new evidence submitted by the Veteran does not provide a link between current conditions and active service or establish that they are related to any presumptive diseases associated with service.
- Claimed conditions
- arteriosclerosis, pulmonary tuberculosis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 30, 2010
- Citation
- 1032692
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- Dismissed
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- Granted
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- Remanded (sent back)
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