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...30 percent WPI reflected in Table 4-2 for hypertensive cardiovascular disease in AMA Guides, 5th Edition, was too high to accurately represent applicant's impairment, and, instead, concluded that 24 percent WPI most accurately described applicant's impairment based upon his consideration of analysis of research and data utilized by writers of AMA Guides, 6th Edition, his clinical judgment and assessment of applicant's mild left ventricular hypertrophy, and analogy of applicant's condition to Coumadin paragraph 9.6 of AMA Guides, 5th Edition, which provides a lower WPI for asymptomatic conditions with serious health risks such as applicant's mild left ventricular hypertrophy. See Frazier panel decision.