Hypertension (high blood pressure) decisions — 2025

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, to include anxiety, and denied an increased rating in excess of 10 percent for hearing loss. Several issues related to service connection were remanded.

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The Board denied service connection for a bilateral hearing loss disability, and remanded the claims for hypertension and sleep apnea to correct pre-decisional errors in fulfilling its duty to assist.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for a back disability, high blood pressure, type II diabetes, and left ear hearing loss to correct pre-decisional duty to assist errors.

The appeal was dismissed due to the death of the appellant and their surviving spouse.

The Board remands the Veteran's claim for service connection for a pulmonary condition, to include asthma, lung scarring, pulmonary vascular disease, and pulmonary hypertension, as additional evidence is needed.

The Board granted service connection for hypertension, finding that it was proximately related to the Veteran's service-connected posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

The Board remands the claim for service connection for hypertension, to include as secondary to an unspecified depressive disorder, for a VA examination and medical opinion.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings and earlier effective dates, finding that the evidence did not support a compensable rating for hypertension or a higher rating for hemorrhoids.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for bilateral ankle disability, bilateral knee disability, prostate cancer, and hypertension (HTN) as well as the claim for special monthly compensation based on aid and attendance/housebound due to a failure to provide notice of the Veteran's right to an AOJ hearing.

The Board remands the Veteran's claims for service connection for GERD and hypertension to correct pre-decisional duty to assist errors.

The Board denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for heart conditions with pacemaker, hypertension, and chronic kidney disease as there was no evidence to support a causal relationship between these conditions and his active duty or service-connected pulmonary tuberculosis.

The claims are remanded to correct duty to assist errors that occurred prior to the relevant decisions on appeal.

The Veteran's hypertension did not meet the criteria for a compensable disability rating, but he was granted an earlier effective date of October 11, 2007, for TDIU due to service-connected disabilities.

The Veteran's tinnitus and hypertension were granted service connection, while the claims for a kidney condition, heart condition, and bilateral eye condition were remanded.

The veteran withdrew the appeals for service connection and disability evaluations, as well as the TDIU claim.

The Board denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for traumatic brain injury, an initial rating greater than 30 percent for right foot pes planus, and a higher rating for hypertension.

The Board granted service connection for coronary artery disease, basal cell carcinoma, and scarring as secondary to basal cell carcinoma. It also granted a 10 percent rating for hypertension and atrioventricular block with implantable pacemaker, but denied higher ratings.

The Board granted service connection for hypertension, finding a sufficient scientific link to the Veteran's presumed exposure to herbicides during his service in Vietnam.

The Board granted a 100 percent disability rating for somatic symptom disorder with predominant pain, persistent, and adjustment disorder with mixed disturbances of mood and conduct, and service connection for sinusitis. The claims for erectile dysfunction (ED) and special monthly compensation (SMC) based on loss of use of reproductive organ were remanded.