The Board has reopened the claim of entitlement to service connection for essential hypertension and granted service connection for organic heart disease, including hyperlipidemia and essential hypertension.
The deciding factor: The medical opinions provided by Dr. Ulin established that the veteran's hyperlipidemia and essential hypertension were present in service and manifested as organic heart disease with essential hypertension and hypercholesterolemia.
- Claimed conditions
- Essential Hypertension, Hyperlipidemia, Organic Heart Disease
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 19, 2001
- Citation
- 0111478
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