The Board has reopened the claim for service connection for the cause of the veteran's death due to new and material evidence, but finds that there is no basis to grant service connection as the medical evidence does not support a link between the veteran's cardiovascular disease and his military service.
The deciding factor: The VA physicians' opinions were in disagreement regarding whether the March 1970 electrocardiogram showed an old myocardial infarction, with one finding it did and another concluding that there was no such evidence. The Board found the opinion of a cardiologist more probative than Dr. Goss's conclusion.
- Claimed conditions
- cardiovascular disease
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 14, 2003
- Citation
- 0300722
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