The Board has dismissed the appeal for service connection for memory loss due to withdrawal by the appellant's attorney. The claims of service connection for hypertension, low back strain with neurological damage, and TIAs, stroke, and seizure disorder have been reopened but are denied as there is no evidence linking these conditions to service or post-service treatment records indicate they began within one year following discharge from service. Service connection for DMII and glaucoma has also been denied due to lack of evidence showing their onset in service or a link to service.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's STRs are negative for any findings, complaints or treatment of the conditions at issue. Post-service medical records show diagnoses but do not indicate that these conditions began during service or within one year following discharge from service.
- Claimed conditions
- Memory loss, Hypertension, Low back strain with neurological damage, Diabetes mellitus type 2 (DMII), Glaucoma
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 30, 2014
- Citation
- 1443524
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