The Board has granted service connection for a heart disability, to include as secondary to PTSD, and DIC based on the cause of death being related to service-connected PTSD.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's heart disability was found to be proximately due to or the result of his service-connected PTSD.
- Claimed conditions
- heart disability, coronary artery disease with congestive heart failure
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 12, 2018
- Citation
- 1802917
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What this means for you
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