The Board denied service connection for a heart disability and stroke, finding that the evidence did not support a causal relationship to service-connected conditions.
The deciding factor: The medical opinions provided were against a direct or secondary service connection due to lack of evidence linking current disabilities to service or service-connected conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- Heart Disability (CAD), Supraventricular Arrhythmia, Cardiomyopathy with Vascular Diseases-Thrombosis
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 1, 2023
- Citation
- 23042180
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