The Veteran's hepatitis C is not service-connected as it did not manifest during her period of active duty and there is no evidence linking the condition to a risk factor or incident of service. The psychiatric disorder claim has been denied due to lack of credible evidence establishing continuity of symptomatology since service.
The deciding factor: There is insufficient evidence to establish that the Veteran's current psychiatric disability had its clinical onset during her period of active duty, as there are no records documenting any complaints or findings related to such a condition in service. The claim for hepatitis C was denied due to lack of evidence linking it to a risk factor or incident of service.
- Claimed conditions
- Hepatitis C, Psychiatric Disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 28, 2012
- Citation
- 1211169
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- Granted
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- Partly granted
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