The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for heart disease, finding that his ASHD was not incurred in or aggravated by service and may not be presumed to have been incurred therein.
The deciding factor: A VA compensation examination concluded that there is an unlikely relationship between the in-service tachycardia and the post-service diagnosis of ASHD.
- Claimed conditions
- Arteriosclerotic heart disease (ASHD)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- March 9, 2006
- Citation
- 0606928
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What you can do next
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