The Board has revised the April 1982 rating decision to grant service connection for atypical anxiety disorder, effective from December 1, 1981.
The deciding factor: The evidence was sufficient to place in equipoise the question of entitlement to direct service connection for atypical anxiety disorder based on VA treatment records indicating that the anxiety symptoms were related to service in the Republic of Vietnam, and the report from the March 1982 VA mental health examination in which the VA examiner's opinion supported the VA treatment record findings.
- Claimed conditions
- atypical anxiety disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 18, 2016
- Citation
- 1615671
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