The Board has determined that the Veteran's service-connected PTSD contributed substantially and materially to his cause of death, end-stage cardiac disease. The decision is in favor of granting service connection for the cause of the Veteran’s death.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence is at least in relative equipoise as to whether the Veteran's service-connected PTSD contributed substantially and materially to his cause of death, end stage cardiac disease.
- Claimed conditions
- Posttraumatic stress disorder, Lewy body dementia (including Parkinson's disease dementia), Ischemic heart disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 12, 2018
- Citation
- 18157404
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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- Granted
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- Denied
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