The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for a helicobacter pylori infection, finding no current diagnosis of such condition and thus denying the claim.
The deciding factor: There is no competent evidence showing the Veteran has a current helicobacter pylori infection at any point during or pertinent to the appeal period.
- Claimed conditions
- Helicobacter pylori infection
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 7, 2019
- Citation
- 19161251
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