The Veteran's upper respiratory disability, including asthma and allergic rhinitis, was granted service connection in a September 2015 rating decision. The claim for left thigh numbness remains pending.
The deciding factor: Service connection was established for the Veteran's upper respiratory disability (asthma and allergic rhinitis) based on direct evidence of its onset during service.
- Claimed conditions
- upper respiratory disability, left thigh numbness
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- November 18, 2015
- Citation
- 1548699
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board allowed the benefit or issue identified in this decision. Review the original order: other issues in the same appeal may have a different outcome, and this decision does not predict another claim.
What you can do next
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied service connection for an upper respiratory disability and a left forearm disability, finding that the Veteran's assertions of continuous symptoms since service were not credible due to the absence of contemporaneous medical notation. The Board also found no causal relationship between the in-service events and the current disabilities.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the issues of entitlement to service connection for an upper respiratory disability and a left forearm disability for additional medical opinions.
- Whole decision: Partly granted
The Board denied service connection for hyperlipidemia and remanded the claims for periodic limb movement disorder, sleep condition, gastroesophageal reflux disease, irritable bowel syndrome, upper respiratory disability, elevated blood pressure, elevated prostate condition, fatigue, right hip condition, dizziness, fainting, or loss of consciousness, pneumonia/dyspnea, and skin, malignant neoplasm.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the claims for service connection for lower lumbar disability, upper respiratory disability, and bilateral hearing loss as there was no evidence of a current diagnosis.
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