The Veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder (paranoid schizophrenia) was not manifested during his active military service and is not shown to be causally or etiologically related to his active military service. The Board denied the claims for service connection, initial disability rating higher than 30 percent for PTSD, and TDIU.
The deciding factor: The acquired psychiatric disorder (paranoid schizophrenia) was not manifested during service and is not shown to be causally or etiologically related to service-connected PTSD.
- Claimed conditions
- Acquired Psychiatric Disorder (Paranoid Schizophrenia)
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 18, 2012
- Citation
- 1224960
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- Granted
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