The Board has determined that the Veteran's cause of death is not related to his military service and denied entitlement to service connection for cause of death.
The deciding factor: The VA medical opinions found no causal link between the Veteran's service-connected disabilities and his cause of death, which was due to ventricular and cardiac arrhythmia and morbid obesity.
- Claimed conditions
- Ventricular arrhythmia, Cardiac arrhythmia, Morbid obesity, Hypercholesterolemia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- November 26, 2021
- Citation
- 21070898
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What this means for you
A final Board denial may be appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, generally within 120 days of the Board mailing date. A Supplemental Claim with new and relevant evidence is a separate option. Another Higher-Level Review of the Board decision is not available. Check your own notice: this historical decision does not set your deadline.
What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board has granted the Veteran's claim for service connection for ventricular arrhythmia as secondary to his service-connected hypertension.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board has granted service connection for sleep apnea, finding that it is secondary to the Veteran's service-connected disabilities with obesity as an intermediary step.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied service connection for bilateral restless leg syndrome, hypertension, and hypercholesterolemia as the evidence did not support a finding that these conditions were related to active service or any incident of service.
- Whole decision: Partly granted
The Board granted an initial rating of 70 percent for a psychiatric disability but denied service connection for cardiac arrhythmia, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, dermatosis, and sleep apnea.
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