The Board found no evidence of actual herbicide exposure in Korea and thus could not grant presumptive service connection for heart disease. The Veteran's current diagnoses do not include ischemic heart disease, which is one of the diseases associated with herbicide exposure.
The deciding factor: There was no evidence of herbicide exposure during service and the Veteran does not have a diagnosis of ischemic heart disease.
- Claimed conditions
- ventricular tachycardia, mild cardiomyopathy
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 9, 2017
- Citation
- 1715467
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