The Board found that the veteran's hypertension and heart disease are not service-connected, as they were aggravated by his service-connected PTSD. The effective date for service connection is May 12, 1994.
The deciding factor: Service connection was granted based on aggravation of pre-existing conditions (hypertension and coronary artery disease) due to service-connected PTSD.
- Claimed conditions
- status post myocardial infarction, coronary artery disease with hypertension
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- April 30, 2002
- Citation
- 0203948
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