The VA has granted service connection for atherosclerotic coronary artery disease as secondary to the veteran's service-connected PTSD, and assigned a 10 percent evaluation.
The deciding factor: VA medical evidence supports that the veteran's heart condition is proximately due to or the result of his service-connected PTSD.
- Claimed conditions
- atherosclerotic coronary artery disease
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- July 20, 2005
- Citation
- 0519687
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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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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board has determined that the severance of service connection for atherosclerotic coronary artery disease/aortic stenosis status post aortic valve replacement was improper, and thus restored the original grant of service connection.
- Granted
The Veteran's cause of death, acute coronary insufficiency due to atherosclerotic coronary artery disease, is considered presumptively related to herbicide exposure in Vietnam. As the Veteran served in Vietnam and his condition is presumed for herbicide-exposed veterans, service connection for the cause of death is granted.
- Partly granted
The veteran's claim for a 100% rating for heart disease was granted, but the claim for service connection for COPD was denied.
- Denied
The Veteran's appeal for a disability rating in excess of 60 percent for atherosclerotic coronary artery disease was denied. The Veteran also received a grant of TDIU based on his service-connected disabilities.
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