The Board has reopened the claim for service connection of the cause of the veteran's death due to new and material evidence, but has determined that the claim is not well-grounded as there is no competent medical evidence linking any condition during service to the cause of death.
The deciding factor: There is no competent medical evidence establishing a nexus between any disease or injury during the veteran's active military service and his cause of death.
- Claimed conditions
- cardiogenic shock, myocardial infarction, severe coronary artery disease, acute renal failure
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- March 3, 2000
- Citation
- 0005753
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What this means for you
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- Denied
The Board denied service connection for asthma, chronic sinusitis, recurrent bronchitis, Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, myocardial infarction, sleep apnea, stroke, right ear hearing loss, and hemorrhoids. The Veteran was also denied a compensable disability rating for left ear hearing loss.
- Denied
The Board denied entitlement to service connection for the cause of death, finding that the Veteran's service-connected conditions did not contribute to his death.
- Dismissed
The appeal was dismissed due to the Veteran's death while it was pending.
- Dismissed
The appeal of the October 2022 rating decision finding no new and relevant evidence to readjudicate the claim for service connection for myocardial infarction, myocarditis, and pericarditis was dismissed as procedurally defective.
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