The Board has determined that new and material evidence has not been submitted to reopen the claim of entitlement to service connection for COPD (claimed as asthma). The Veteran's continued assertion that his preexisting respiratory condition was aggravated by military service was before the RO at the time of the February 1998 decision and is therefore cumulative.
The deciding factor: The medical opinion provided in 2012 did not raise a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim for service connection due to aggravation of a preexisting condition.
- Claimed conditions
- COPD (claimed as asthma)
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 30, 2015
- Citation
- 1504442
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