The Board has granted service connection for a chronic cardiac disorder, including cardiomegaly and hypertensive heart disease. The veteran's hypertension is currently rated at 10 percent.
The deciding factor: Hypertensive heart disease was found to be proximately due to or the result of service-connected hypertension.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic cardiac disorder (including cardiomegaly and hypertensive heart disease), benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH), sensory polyneuropathy, nicotine dependence, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with chronic bronchitis (secondary to nicotine dependence), Peyronie's disease, low back disorder (manifested by degenerative disc disease and sciatica, secondary to cervical spine disability)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- January 31, 2003
- Citation
- 0301983
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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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