The Board has determined that heart disease and peripheral vascular disease are not related to the veteran's service-connected residuals of multiple shell fragment wounds of the right lower extremity. However, as these conditions are proximately due to or the result of his service-connected disabilities, they have been granted secondary service connection.
The deciding factor: The VA cardiovascular expert concluded that the veteran's heart disease and peripheral vascular disease were not related to his service-connected residuals of multiple shell fragment wounds of the right lower extremity. However, given the presence of multiple risk factors for coronary artery disease and hypertension, which are more than sufficient to account for these conditions, they have been granted secondary service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- Heart Disease, Peripheral Vascular Disease
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- March 13, 2000
- Citation
- 0006673
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