The Board finds that the veteran does not have current diagnoses of coronary artery disease or hypercholesterolemia, and thus cannot establish service connection for these conditions.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence does not support a diagnosis of either condition in the veteran's case.
- Claimed conditions
- Coronary Artery Disease with Chronic Ischemic Heart Disease, Hypercholesterolemia
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 17, 2008
- Citation
- 0823897
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