The Board has determined that the claim of entitlement to service connection for the cause of the veteran's death is not well grounded due to a lack of competent evidence linking the service-connected psychiatric disability with the cause of death.
The deciding factor: The medical text evidence submitted by the appellant does not provide sufficient certainty regarding the relationship between anxiety and cardiac dysrhythmia, nor does it link the service-connected anxiety condition to the cause of death.
- Claimed conditions
- Cardiac dysrhythmia, Hypotension, Sepsis
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 29, 2000
- Citation
- 0008420
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