The Board denied service connection for a heart disorder, finding that it was not incurred in or aggravated by service and was not caused by or permanently worsened by the veteran's service-connected diabetes mellitus. The Board also found that the veteran's diabetes mellitus did not require his activities to be clinically regulated.
The deciding factor: The evidence showed no chronic heart condition during service, no continuity of symptomatology after service, and a diagnosis of idiopathic cardiomyopathy many years after service with no link to service or diabetes mellitus.
- Claimed conditions
- Heart disorder
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 26, 2009
- Citation
- 0902665
What this means for you
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What you can do next
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