The Board found no evidence of a current diagnosis of an organic heart disease and denied the veteran's claim for service connection for cardiac disease.
The deciding factor: There was no clinical or historical evidence of heart disease in the record, and the condition is not considered to have been incurred in service due to lack of a present disability.
- Claimed conditions
- cardiac disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- April 15, 2003
- Citation
- 0307211
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Decisions by this judge: 1,419 · Granted: 21% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
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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 a cardiac disability, finding that his condition did not originate in service and is not otherwise etiologically related to his service.
- Whole decision: Dismissed
The Veteran's appeals for service connection for hypertension and cardiac disease have been dismissed due to his death.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided to remand the case due to incomplete medical opinions and additional development is needed.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board has granted service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death due to exposure to herbicide agents during his service in the Republic of Vietnam, and diabetes and cardiac disease are presumed associated with this exposure.
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