The Veteran's claim for service connection for heart condition(s), including as due to herbicide-agent exposure, has been reopened and is granted.
The deciding factor: New evidence submitted by the Veteran reasonably relates to his current disability and a possible link between his heart condition(s) and herbicide agent exposure during service.
- Claimed conditions
- heart condition(s)
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 26, 2021
- Citation
- 21011073
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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.
What you can do next
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