The Board has granted the Veteran's claim of secondary service connection for a heart disorder, which is proximately due to his service-connected hypertension.
The deciding factor: The VHA expert opinion indicated that the Veteran’s currently diagnosed aortic valve replacement (heart disorder) was caused by and aggravated by his documented long-term hypertension.
- Claimed conditions
- status post aortic valve replacement, angina
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 1, 2019
- Citation
- 19159925
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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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