The Board has determined that the veteran's service-connected right foot injury, which caused him to be sedentary and limit his activities, contributed substantially or materially to his death from a frontoparietal cerebrovascular accident and aspiration pneumonia. As such, the cause of death is deemed to have been incurred in or aggravated by service.
The deciding factor: The veteran's service-connected right foot injury caused him to be sedentary and limit his activities, which contributed to his death from a frontoparietal cerebrovascular accident and aspiration pneumonia.
- Claimed conditions
- shell fragment wound of the right foot
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 9, 2008
- Citation
- 0800893
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