The Veteran's heart condition is not service-connected due to lack of a chronic disease in service or within the presumptive period.,Service connection for peripheral neuropathy of the upper and lower extremities is denied as there is no current diagnosis of such conditions.,Right mandible cancer is not service-connected as it does not fall under the presumptive diseases list for herbicide exposure.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's myocardial infarction was caused by substance abuse, not herbicide exposure.,There is no evidence of a current diagnosis of peripheral neuropathy in any extremity and the Veteran has diabetes without diabetic neuropathy.,Right mandible cancer was not related to service or herbicide exposure.
- Claimed conditions
- status post myocardial infarction, peripheral neuropathy of the left upper extremities, peripheral neuropathy of the right upper extremities, peripheral neuropathy of the left lower extremities, peripheral neuropathy of the right lower extremities, cancer of right mandible, status-post surgical resection
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 17, 2019
- Citation
- 19104410
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