The veteran's heart disease with hypertension is rated at 60 percent, which is the maximum schedular rating available for this condition.
The deciding factor: The veteran demonstrated sufficient left ventricular dysfunction and mild impairment to warrant a 60 percent evaluation under Diagnostic Codes 7005 (heart disability) and 7017 (status post coronary artery bypass graft).
- Claimed conditions
- heart disease with hypertension, chest wall pain
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- March 12, 2003
- Citation
- 0304499
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Decisions by this judge: 1,325 · Granted: 31% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for chest wall pain, finding that the evidence does not support a link between the condition and his active military service.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's lung condition was granted an initial rating of 20 percent prior to October 10, 2016, and a 30 percent rating thereafter.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for chest wall pain, finding that there is no current disability related to the condition and thus not meeting the criteria for service connection.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board has granted the Veteran's application to reopen his claim for service connection for chest pain, finding that new and material evidence supports a current disability related to service. The Board also found that there is at least equipoise of evidence regarding whether the Veteran's chest pain had its onset in service.
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