The Veteran's atherosclerotic heart disease is granted as service connected due to presumed Agent Orange exposure. The skin condition issue remains pending and will be remanded for further examination.
The deciding factor: Service connection was granted based on the presumption of exposure to herbicide agents, specifically Agent Orange, during active duty in Korea.
- Claimed conditions
- atherosclerotic heart disease, skin condition
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 3, 2018
- Citation
- 18115737
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