The Veteran's appeal for earlier effective dates and increased ratings has been withdrawn by the appellant.
The deciding factor: The appellant requested withdrawal of all claims in the appeal.
- Claimed conditions
- coronary artery disease with valvular heart disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 8, 2024
- Citation
- A24024128
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What this means for you
A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot. It says more about procedure than about whether a claim like this can win.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board granted an effective date of February 26, 2013, for coronary artery disease with valvular heart disease and March 31, 2017, for diabetes mellitus type 2 with erectile dysfunction.
- Granted
The Veteran's claim for service connection for prostate cancer has been reopened due to the submission of new and material evidence. The hypertension rating remains at 30 percent, but the coronary artery disease with valvular heart disease is remanded for further review as it may warrant a higher rating.
- Dismissed
The Board has dismissed all service connection claims due to the Veteran's death.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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