[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 38, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 38 CFR 3.310]

[Page 242]

TITLE 38 -- PENSIONS, BONUSES, AND VETERANS' RELIEF

CHAPTER I -- DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

PART 3 -- ADJUDICATION -- Table of Contents

Subpart A -- Pension, Compensation, and Dependency and Indemnity Compensation

Sec. 3.310 Proximate results, secondary conditions.

    (a) General. Except as provided in Sec. § 3.300(c), disability which is proximately due to or the result of a service-connected disease or injury shall be service connected. When service connection is thus established for a secondary condition, the secondary condition shall be considered a part of the original condition.

    (b) Cardiovascular disease. Ischemic heart disease or other cardiovascular disease developing in a veteran who has a service- connected amputation of one lower extremity at or above the knee or service-connected amputations of both lower extremities at or above the ankles, shall be held to be the proximate result of the service- connected amputation or amputations.

(Authority: 38 U.S.C. 501, 1110-1131)

[44 FR 50340, Aug. 28, 1979, as amended at 66 FR 18198, Apr. 6, 2001]

Editorial Note: For Federal Register citations affecting Sec. 3.1, see the List of Sections Affected, which appears in the Finding Aids section of the printed volume and on GPO Access.

PART I -- DEPT OF VA       CFR





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