The Board denied service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death and for frontotemporal dementia, finding no evidence linking these conditions to his military service or exposure to herbicide agents.
The deciding factor: No competent evidence established a nexus between the Veteran’s presumed in-service exposure to herbicides and chemical agents and his frontotemporal dementia.
- Claimed conditions
- Frontotemporal dementia
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 11, 2019
- Citation
- 19153421
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- Remanded (sent back)
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