Hypertension (high blood pressure) Board decisions

The appeal for service connection for sinusitis, allergies, and vertigo was dismissed. The appeals for service connection for a psychiatric disability (anxiety), hypertension, heart disease, kidney disease, obstructive sleep apnea, bilateral hearing loss, and tinnitus were denied.

The Board denied service connection for diabetes mellitus, major depression, high blood pressure, and a major head injury as the evidence did not support a finding that these conditions were related to the Veteran's active service.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for various service-connected conditions, including knee pain, back pain, and anxiety disorder.

The Board granted a 10 percent rating for hypertension effective October 10, 2018, and denied higher ratings or earlier effective dates for the other conditions.

The Board granted earlier effective dates of April 6, 2020 for the award of service connection for hypertension and coronary artery disease with congestive, systolic, diastolic heart failure.

The Board granted service connection for migraine headaches and hypertension, finding that both conditions were proximately related to the Veteran's service-connected disabilities.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include schizoaffective disorder, depressive type, and secondary conditions of GERD and hypertension. The claims for major depression and anxiety as separate conditions from the now service-connected schizoaffective disorder, depressive type, were denied.

The Board denied increased ratings for the Veteran's knee and hip disabilities, granted a 20% rating for right knee semilunar cartilage condition and left knee semilunar cartilage condition, and denied service connection for hypertension and type II diabetes mellitus.

The Board denied service connection for diabetes mellitus, type II, cardiovascular disability, hypertension, thyromegaly, prostate cancer, and bladder cancer as there is no evidence of in-service exposure to herbicide agents or that the disabilities are related to such exposure.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for a heart disability and the Veteran's cause of death due to cardiac arrest, as additional medical opinions are needed.

The Board remands the claims for further evidentiary development and readjudication due to non-compliance with prior remand directives.

The Board denied an earlier effective date for service connection for hypothyroidism and remanded claims for a compensable rating for hypertension, a higher rating for PTSD, and TDIU.

The Board granted service connection for coronary artery disease and hypertension based on the Veteran's exposure to herbicides during his service in Vietnam.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for various conditions due to a need for further development and evidence regarding potential exposure to toxins, including asbestos.

The Board denied service connection for obstructive sleep apnea, granted an effective date of January 1, 2014, for the award of service connection for reactive airway disease and hypertension.

The Board granted service connection for GERD as it is but-for due to the Veteran's service-connected lumbosacral strain and right knee strain. The remaining claims for IBS, hypertension, heart failure, and pericarditis are remanded for further development.

The Board granted service connection for generalized anxiety disorder but denied service connection for acne, hypertension (claimed as high blood pressure), and bacterial vaginitis.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for hypothyroidism and hypertension, to include exposure to herbicide agents, due to pre-decisional duty-to-assist omissions.

The Board denied service connection for hypertension and remanded the claim for right upper extremity carpal tunnel syndrome.

The Board denied service connection for various conditions, including hearing impairment, tinnitus, hypertension, Parkinson's disease, hypothyroidism, melanoma, acne, COPD, and left and right foot disabilities.