The Board denied a claim for an increased disability rating for anxiety neurosis and granted service connection for hypertension, but found that the kidney disorder was not related to the veteran's service-connected anxiety neurosis.
The deciding factor: The preponderance of evidence established that the very mild increase in hypertension caused by the anxiety disorder would not have been sufficient to cause renal dysfunction.
- Claimed conditions
- Anxiety Neurosis, Kidney Disorder
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- February 29, 2000
- Citation
- 0005299
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- Denied
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