The Board denied service connection for a heart condition other than hypertension and found that the veteran's substantive appeal to the May 2003 rating decision which denied service connection for a bilateral eye condition was not timely filed, thus the Board lacks jurisdiction to consider this issue.
The deciding factor: There is no current diagnosis of a heart disability apart from hypertension. The veteran's claims file reflects transient heart problems that do not indicate a chronic heart disability other than hypertension.
- Claimed conditions
- Heart condition other than hypertension
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 24, 2008
- Citation
- 0809692
What this means for you
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What you can do next
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