The Board has determined that the veteran's claim for service connection for residuals of a stroke is well-grounded, and thus VA must assist in obtaining additional medical records and conducting an examination to determine if his stroke was caused by heat stress or stress during reserve service.
The deciding factor: The veteran provided competent evidence of current disability (a medical diagnosis), incurrence or aggravation of a disease or injury in service (heat stress and stress from reserve service), and a nexus between the in-service event and the current disability (stress from reserve service caused his stroke).
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a stroke
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 11, 2000
- Citation
- 0018052
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