The Board finds that the veteran did not suffer a myocardial infarction or have a left lower extremity circulatory condition due to service-connected diabetes mellitus. The evidence does not support these claims.
The deciding factor: There is no medical evidence of a current heart attack and insufficient evidence linking the claimed conditions to service-connected DM.
- Claimed conditions
- Myocardial Infarction (Heart Attack), Left Lower Extremity Circulatory Condition
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 3, 2008
- Citation
- 0841524
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