The Board has granted service connection for a Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA) as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected diabetes mellitus and coronary artery disease.
The deciding factor: The evidence is in equipoise, with an approximate balance of favorable and unfavorable evidence, and the Board finds that the CVA was due to service-connected conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA)
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 5, 2019
- Citation
- 19183684
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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