The Veteran's asthma is granted as secondary to his service-connected allergic rhinitis. The Veteran's respiratory disorder other than lung cancer and asthma, including bronchiectasis, is denied as not related to any disease or injury in service.
The deciding factor: The evidence supports a link between current asthma and service-connected disease or injury (allergic rhinitis), but the preponderance of the evidence is against finding that the Veteran's respiratory disorder other than lung cancer and asthma, including bronchiectasis, are proximately due to or the result of, or aggravated beyond their natural progression by service-connected disease or injury.
- Claimed conditions
- asthma, respiratory disorder other than lung cancer and asthma, bronchiectasis
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 4, 2018
- Citation
- 18101329
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What this means for you
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