The Board has determined that the Veteran does not have a chronic eating disorder or sleeping disorder, and therefore service connection for these conditions is denied.
The deciding factor: There is no medical evidence of current chronic eating or sleeping disorders in the record.
- Claimed conditions
- eating disorder, sleeping disorder
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 5, 2013
- Citation
- 1324806
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