The Board has determined that new and material evidence has not been presented to reopen the claim for service connection for abnormal blood work.
The deciding factor: The submitted evidence is either cumulative or redundant of previous records, does not relate to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the claim, and is insufficient to raise a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- abnormal blood work, dyslipidemia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 18, 2013
- Citation
- 1312986
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