The Board has determined that the veteran's claim for service connection for hypertension is well grounded and granted.
The deciding factor: The VA physician provided an opinion on the most probable date of onset of the veteran's hypertension, finding it likely to have had its onset during active military service or within one year after separation from service.
- Claimed conditions
- hypertensive vascular disease (hypertension)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 12, 2000
- Citation
- 0018247
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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