Hypertension (high blood pressure) Board decisions

The Board denied service connection for hypertension, finding no competent evidence of its occurrence in service or a link to service.

The Board has denied the veteran's claims for service connection for hepatitis C and hypertension, as secondary to diabetes mellitus. The evidence does not support a finding of current diagnoses or a link between these conditions and the veteran's active service.

The Board denied an initial rating in excess of 20% for DM, finding that the veteran's condition required insulin and a restricted diet but was not solely responsible for limiting his activities due to significant non-service-connected disabilities.

The Board has determined that hypertension was not incurred in or aggravated by service and is unrelated to disease, injury, or event of service origin. The Board also found that current hypertension is not causally related to or made worse by the veteran's service-connected mood disorder.

The veteran's appeal for service connection for hypertension has been dismissed due to his death.

The veteran's claims for increased evaluations of hypertension, post-operative residuals of benign prostatic hypertrophy, allergic rhinitis, and thrombophlebitis were denied. The preponderance of the evidence did not support higher ratings under the applicable criteria.

The Board has remanded the veteran's claims for service connection for PTSD and hypertension due to insufficient evidence regarding the in-service stressor for PTSD. The case will be returned to the Board after further development.

The veteran's nonservice-connected disabilities do not meet the schedular requirements for a permanent and total rating for nonservice-connected pension.

The Board has determined that the veteran's claimed musculoskeletal chest pain, hypertension, and coronary artery disease disabilities were not incurred in or aggravated by active service. The claims are therefore denied.

The veteran's appeal is being remanded for a videoconference hearing at the RO level.

The veteran's appeal is being remanded for additional development, including providing proper VCAA notice and scheduling a VA examination to evaluate his service-connected conditions.

The Board has determined that the veteran does not have current hypertension or coronary artery disease due to service or a service-connected disability, and thus denied both claims.

The Board has determined that the veteran's claimed conditions are not service-connected, as there is no evidence of their onset during his active duty for training or subsequent reserve service. The appellant did not meet the criteria for presumptive service connection based on herbicide exposure.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for hypertension and coronary artery disease, both claimed as secondary to his service-connected PTSD. The Board also denied the claim for an initial compensable rating for left ear hearing loss.

The Board has denied all service connection claims as there is no medical evidence of current diagnoses for the claimed conditions.

The veteran's claim for service connection for PTSD was denied in June 1996 due to lack of evidence of Vietnam service. The effective date for the grant of service connection for PTSD is set at September 27, 1995.

The Board has determined that the veteran does not have a current diagnosis of hypertension or headaches due to service. The evidence shows no findings, treatment, or diagnoses for these conditions in service and there is insufficient medical evidence linking them to service.,The veteran's claims for hypertension and headaches are denied as they do not meet the criteria for direct service connection.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for depression, anxiety, cataracts, hypertension, and diabetes mellitus due to radiation exposure. The evidence did not show these conditions were incurred during service or related to any in-service radiation exposure.

The Board granted the veteran's claims for an effective date prior to June 17, 2004 for a 100% evaluation for PTSD and service connection for hypertension, heart disease, liver disease, malaria, and disability due to exposure to Agent Orange. The rating assigned was not specified.

The Board found that the veteran's cardiovascular diseases, including coronary artery disease and hypertension, were not incurred in or aggravated by active service. The only competent opinion addressing the primary contended causal relationship is that the veteran's cardiovascular diseases are not due to his service-connected nephrolithiasis with a history of pyelonephritis.