The Board found that the Veteran's congenital non-compaction cardiomyopathy, a disease, did not pre-exist service and was not aggravated by his active military service.
The deciding factor: There is no clear evidence of a pre-existing condition at entry into service and the examiner concluded that the heart disorder continued throughout service without being aggravated by its demands.
- Claimed conditions
- Congenital non-compaction cardiomyopathy
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 9, 2018
- Citation
- 1814982
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