The Board has found that the veteran's claim of entitlement to service connection for coronary artery disease with hypertension is well grounded. The evidence supports a relationship between the veteran's generalized anxiety disorder with PTSD and his heart condition/hypertension.
The deciding factor: A private physician provided an opinion linking the veteran's myocardial infarction, which occurred during active duty, to stress related to his job, including his service-connected generalized anxiety disorder with PTSD.
- Claimed conditions
- coronary artery disease with hypertension, generalized anxiety disorder with PTSD
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 22, 2000
- Citation
- 0013478
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