The Board has determined that the veteran's service-connected anxiety reaction with depressive features aggravated his coronary artery disease, and thus grants service connection for the coronary artery disease as secondary to the service-connected condition.
The deciding factor: Two affirmative opinions concluded that the veteran's service-connected anxiety reaction with depressive features aggravated his heart condition, supporting a grant of service connection for coronary artery disease status post myocardial infarction.
- Claimed conditions
- coronary artery disease status post myocardial infarction
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 2, 2006
- Citation
- 0631013
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