The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for unexplained weight loss, finding no current disability of unexplained weight loss and thus not meeting one of the requirements for service connection.
The deciding factor: There is no current disability of unexplained weight loss that can be linked to service or any other condition.
- Claimed conditions
- unexplained weight loss
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 22, 2018
- Citation
- 18128686
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