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 assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 15, 2003
- Citation
- 0307211
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