The Board has determined that the veteran's service-connected hypertensive vascular disease caused or contributed substantially to his death, and thus grants service connection for the cause of his death.
The deciding factor: The veteran was a former POW who developed cardiovascular disease during service. His hypertension is presumed due to his status as a POW, and he had evidence of coronary artery disease at autopsy which could have been related to this condition.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), pulmonary tuberculosis (TB), hypertensive vascular disease, encephalopathy, adenocarcinoma, prostate
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- December 22, 2006
- Citation
- 0639776
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