The Board has determined that the Veteran's current depressive disorder is not caused by or aggravated by his service-connected low back strain or any other service-connected disability, and thus service connection for a psychiatric disorder cannot be established.
The deciding factor: There is no competent evidence linking the current depressive disorders to the service-connected low back strain or other service-connected disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- Depressive Disorders
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 28, 2012
- Citation
- 1222642
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