The Board denied the appellant's claim of service connection for the cause of her husband's death, finding that his service-connected anxiety disorder did not substantially or materially contribute to his death.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence does not support a causal link between the veteran's service-connected anxiety disorder and the rupture of his abdominal aortic aneurysm.
- Claimed conditions
- Anxiety Disorder, Coronary Artery Disease, Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 27, 2001
- Citation
- 0123568
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