The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for heart disease, finding that there was no direct service connection and insufficient evidence to support a secondary service connection based on his service-connected type II diabetes mellitus.
The deciding factor: The medical opinion provided by the VA examiner did not establish that the veteran's service-connected diabetes aggravated his heart problems, thus failing to meet the criteria for secondary service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- Heart disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 30, 2006
- Citation
- 0619374
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What this means for you
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