The Veteran's coronary artery disease has not met the criteria for a rating in excess of 10 percent since December 2010.
The deciding factor: The evidence does not show that the service-connected cardiac disorder was limiting the Veteran’s workload to 7 METs or less resulting in dyspnea, fatigue, angina, dizziness or syncope due to CAD, and fails to show that the Veteran has had cardiac hypertrophy or cardiac dilation.
- Claimed conditions
- Coronary artery disease (CAD) status post myocardial infarction
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- May 13, 2020
- Citation
- 20033258
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- Granted
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