Sec. 3.310 Proximate Results, Secondary Conditions.

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[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 38, Volume 1, Parts 0 to 17]

[Revised as of July 1, 1998]

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[CITE: 38CFR3.310]

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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. 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]