The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for cardiovascular disease, including essential hypertension, finding no current clinical confirmation of these conditions.
The deciding factor: Without current clinical confirmation of cardiovascular disease or essential hypertension, service connection is not warranted.
- Claimed conditions
- Cardiovascular disease, Essential hypertension
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 8, 2000
- Citation
- 0015206
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