The veteran's service-connected injuries, particularly the shrapnel wound involving the kidney, contributed to his death from atherosclerotic heart disease. The Board granted service connection for the cause of the veteran's death.
The deciding factor: Service-connected disabilities resulted in debilitating effects that rendered the veteran materially less capable of resisting other diseases primarily causing death.
- Claimed conditions
- atherosclerotic heart disease, cerebrovascular accident, obesity
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 22, 2000
- Citation
- 0013516
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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- Dismissed
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