The Veteran is granted an initial disability rating of 60 percent for coronary artery disease from December 21, 2005, to March 1, 2006.,The Veteran's claim for a higher initial disability rating for the period from March 2, 2006, to August 24, 2008, is denied.,The Veteran's claim for a higher initial disability rating for the period from August 25, 2008, to October 14, 2013, from February 1, 2014, to May 24, 2017, and from September 1, 2017, to May 17, 2018, is denied.,The Veteran's claim for a higher initial disability rating for the period from August 10, 2015, to October 25, 2015, is granted.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence does not meet the criteria for a higher disability rating based on left ventricular dysfunction with an ejection fraction of 30 to 50 percent.
- Claimed conditions
- Coronary artery disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- August 15, 2019
- Citation
- 19163418
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