The Board denied the claim of service connection for cause of death due to lack of evidence linking the veteran's death to his service or any incident thereof, including his POW captivity.
The deciding factor: There was no medical evidence linking the cause of the veteran's death to service or any incident thereof, and there is no reliable evidence that he had localized edema during his POW captivity for purposes of presumptive service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- Acute myocardial infarction, Diabetes mellitus
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 28, 2000
- Citation
- 0022771
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