The Board has determined that the veteran's heart disability, including atrial fibrillation and congestive heart failure, is proximately due to or the result of his service-connected hypertension. As a result, secondary service connection for a heart disability is granted.
The deciding factor: The medical opinions provided by Dr. J.R., who concluded there was a greater than 50 percent probability that the veteran's atrial fibrillation and congestive heart failure were related to his hypertensive heart disease, supported the grant of secondary service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- Congestive Heart Failure, Atrial Fibrillation
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 26, 2006
- Citation
- 0622063
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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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