The Board finds that the veteran's headache disability and coronary disease are aggravated by his service-connected PTSD, warranting service connection for both conditions.
The deciding factor: Service connection is granted based on aggravation of pre-existing disabilities due to a service-connected condition (PTSD).
- Claimed conditions
- Headache disability, Coronary disease
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 17, 2004
- Citation
- 0412688
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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.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for a separate 50 percent initial rating for insomnia as secondary to tinnitus, and denied an increased rating for tinnitus. The Board also granted service connection for headache disability, low back disability, left lower extremity radiculopathy, cervical spine disability, and right upper extremity radiculopathy.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection, to include on a secondary basis, for PTSD, depression, headache disability, and bilateral foot disabilities due to further development of the Veteran's reported in-service stressor events and obtaining additional medical opinions.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, to include a sleep disorder and a headache disability as the evidence of record did not support the claims.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for pancreatic cancer with cholangitis under the PACT Act, and for right and left upper and lower extremity neuropathy as secondary to pancreatic cancer. The claims for a headache disability and obstructive sleep apnea were denied.
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