The Board granted service connection for functional diarrhea, which is presumptively related to the Veteran's Persian Gulf service.
The deciding factor: The functional diarrhea is a qualifying chronic disability and is presumptively related to exposures incurred during her Persian Gulf service.
- Claimed conditions
- functional diarrhea
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- Gulf War
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- December 16, 2025
- Citation
- A25108552
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Decisions by this judge: 2,500 · Granted: 29% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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