Does anyone know of a website or any other place I can go to determine what my METs would be?
In the VA Rating Decision and the VA Rating Schedules they rely on a form of measurement of Heart Disease called METs (Metabolic Equivalents).
The problem being that every private cardiologist I called (8 of them) do not use this method and none of them have actually any knowledge of its usefulness.
They all use the New York Heart Association scale.
Even my VA Cardiologist doesn't use METs to measure cardiac function nor does he know how it is measured or what use it has in evaluating heart function.
I can find little so far through google to help me compare my current NYHA Class III rating to METs.
The VA said I was rated at 4 mets and that is one of the reasons they said I am only 60% instead of 100% for my hearty diseases.
I ran through my C-File real fast and found during one of my C&P exams the doctor said I was 3 to 4 mets at the most. Wouldn't you know the VA used the 4 instead of the 3 when rating me.
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Does anyone know of a website or any other place I can go to determine what my METs would be?
In the VA Rating Decision and the VA Rating Schedules they rely on a form of measurement of Heart Disease called METs (Metabolic Equivalents).
The problem being that every private cardiologist I called (8 of them) do not use this method and none of them have actually any knowledge of its usefulness.
They all use the New York Heart Association scale.
Even my VA Cardiologist doesn't use METs to measure cardiac function nor does he know how it is measured or what use it has in evaluating heart function.
I can find little so far through google to help me compare my current NYHA Class III rating to METs.
The VA said I was rated at 4 mets and that is one of the reasons they said I am only 60% instead of 100% for my hearty diseases.
I ran through my C-File real fast and found during one of my C&P exams the doctor said I was 3 to 4 mets at the most. Wouldn't you know the VA used the 4 instead of the 3 when rating me.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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