The Board found that the Veteran's death was not caused by a service-connected condition, and therefore denied the claim for service connection for the cause of death.
The deciding factor: The VA physician's opinion indicated that the chest pain in service was musculoskeletal rather than cardiac, and thus not related to the later diagnosed CAD which led to the Veteran's death.
- Claimed conditions
- CAD (Coronary Artery Disease), Hyperlipidemia, COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 26, 2010
- Citation
- 1007299
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What this means for you
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