Partly grantedPACT Act
The Board granted service connection for hypertension and coronary artery disease under the PACT Act, but remanded other issues due to pre-decisional duty-to-assist errors.
The deciding factor: The decision was based on the Veteran's exposure to herbicide agents during his military service and the passage of the PACT Act, which presumes certain diseases are related to such exposure.
- Claimed conditions
- Hypertension, Coronary artery disease, adjudicated as atrial fibrillation and coronary calcification without stenosis, claimed as supraventricular arrhythmia
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 30, 2025
- Citation
- A25008721
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