The Board has granted the veteran's claims for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder and a cardiac disorder, finding new and material evidence to reopen his previously denied claims. The heart disorder is found to be secondary to his service-connected pulmonary tuberculosis.
The deciding factor: New medical records have been submitted showing diagnoses of depression, anxiety disorders, and prescriptions for antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications, which supports the veteran's claim for an acquired psychiatric disorder. For the cardiac disorder, the Board determined that it was proximately due to or aggravated by his service-connected pulmonary tuberculosis.
- Claimed conditions
- acquired psychiatric disorder, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cardiac disorder
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 4, 2004
- Citation
- 0403119
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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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