The Board finds that the Veteran does not have a current disability of tremors, and there is no evidence linking his tremors to service or any presumptive exposure. The Board also found that the tremors are not secondary to his service-connected ischemic heart disease.
The deciding factor: There is no competent medical evidence showing a current diagnosis of tremors or any link between the Veteran's service and these symptoms, including as due to herbicide agent exposure. The VA examiner concluded that the Veteran does not have Parkinson's-like conditions, which are required for presumptive service connection under NAM recommendations.
- Claimed conditions
- tremors
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 9, 2018
- Citation
- 1801374
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