The Board finds that the Veteran does not have a chronic disorder related to chest pain and fails to link his current costosternal syndrome to his military service, including as secondary to his service-connected generalized anxiety disorder with panic disorder and major depressive disorder. Therefore, service connection for chest pain is denied.
The deciding factor: The most probative evidence shows no diagnosis or medical evidence of chronic costochondritis or other anterior wall syndrome, and that the current diagnosis of costosternal syndrome was unrelated to the Veteran's military service.
- Claimed conditions
- chest pain, costosternal syndrome
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 28, 2016
- Citation
- 1641818
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