The Board finds that the veteran's heart disease has been aggravated by his service-connected PTSD, and thus grants service connection for this condition as secondary to PTSD.
The deciding factor: The evidence is in equipoise regarding whether the veteran's PTSD has caused an additional degree of aggravation to his pre-existing heart disease, which supports a finding of secondary service connection under Allen v. Brown.
- Claimed conditions
- heart disease
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- September 7, 2001
- Citation
- 0122143
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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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