Anxiety Board decisions

The appeal is remanded for further development, including a medical opinion on the relationship between the veteran's stroke and his service-connected heart disease.

The veteran's generalized anxiety disorder is not manifested by symptoms that would warrant a disability rating in excess of 30 percent.

The Board found that the veteran's symptoms did not warrant a rating in excess of 50 percent for the period from October 1, 2003, to July 23, 2007, and in excess of 70 percent from July 24, 2007.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for diabetes mellitus and anxiety/stress, finding that new and material evidence had not been submitted to reopen the claim for diabetes mellitus and that there was no evidence relating any currently diagnosed mental disorder to active duty.

The Board granted service connection for a low back disorder, finding that the current degenerative changes are likely due to an in-service motor vehicle accident. The claim for anxiety neurosis was reopened but not adjudicated on its merits.

The veteran's disability manifested by an anxiety disorder is due to disease or injury that was incurred in active service.

The Board denied service connection for tinnitus and an anxiety disorder as there was no evidence of these conditions in service or within a reasonable time thereafter, and the current conditions were not related to service.

The Board reopened the claims for service connection for a bilateral knee condition and a bilateral ankle condition, but denied the requests to reopen claims for service connection for anxiety neurosis, hysteria, and a bilateral foot condition.

The veteran's claims for increased ratings for her service-connected thoracolumbar spine disability and panic disorder with generalized anxiety disorder were denied as the evidence did not support higher ratings.

The appeal is remanded to the RO for further development and consideration of the veteran's claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder.

The veteran's claims for service connection for headaches, body aches, joint and back pain, fatigue, anxiety, and short term memory loss are being remanded for additional development.

The appeal is remanded for a VA examination to determine the nature and severity of the veteran's psychiatric disorder, including whether it was incurred in or aggravated by service.

The veteran is granted special monthly compensation for the need of regular aid and attendance due to his service-connected low back disability.

The Board found that the September 1957 and June 1958 rating decisions proposing to sever and severing service connection for hypertension and anxiety reaction were not clearly and unmistakably erroneous.

The veteran's claims for service connection for bilateral hearing loss, tinnitus, an anxiety condition, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are being remanded to afford the veteran VA examinations.

The appeal was remanded to address the possibility of a total rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.

The Board denied service connection for tinnitus and anxiety disorder, as there was no evidence linking these conditions to the veteran's military service. The claim for bilateral hearing loss is remanded for further examination.

The veteran's anxiety disorder does not warrant a rating in excess of 50 percent.

The Board granted service connection for renal insufficiency as secondary to the veteran's service-connected type II diabetes mellitus and infectious hepatitis, but denied increased evaluations for peripheral neuropathy of both lower extremities and upper extremities, and denied reopening claims for PTSD, dyspneic disorder with anxiety, and hypertensive vascular disease.

The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, including PTSD, as there was no competent evidence linking any of these disorders to his military service.