The Board has determined that the evidence received since the July 2005 Board decision is not new and material, thus denying the Veteran's requests to reopen his claims for service connection for chronic venous insufficiency of the right leg and left leg.
The deciding factor: The submitted evidence does not relate to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the claims nor does it raise a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claims.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic venous insufficiency of the right leg, chronic venous insufficiency of the left leg
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 11, 2017
- Citation
- 1732610
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