The Board denied secondary service connection for a hypertensive disorder and angina, finding no credible evidence linking these conditions to the service-connected thrombophlebitis of the right leg.
The deciding factor: There is no objective medical evidence showing that the appellant's hypertensive disorder and angina were caused or aggravated by her service-connected thrombophlebitis of the right leg.
- Claimed conditions
- hypertensive disorder, angina
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 8, 2001
- Citation
- 0106862
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