Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the matter for an opinion on whether the Veteran's heart disability is secondary to his service-connected generalized anxiety disorder.
The deciding factor: Remand is necessary due to the lack of a medical opinion addressing the secondary service connection theory.
- Claimed conditions
- Heart disability (congestive heart failure)
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 6, 2025
- Citation
- A25020971
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