The Board has determined that new and material evidence has been submitted to reopen the veteran's claim of entitlement to service connection for heart disease with hypertension. The preponderance of the competent and probative evidence is against finding that this condition was incurred in or aggravated by service.
The deciding factor: New medical records have provided evidence suggesting a current diagnosis of hypertension, which may be related to an existing heart disability.
- Claimed conditions
- heart disease with hypertension
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 29, 2001
- Citation
- 0117436
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The Board denied service connection for a blood disorder, heart disease with hypertension, and kidney disease. The Veteran's claims were based on direct evidence of the conditions during his military service.
- Denied
The Board found no basis for assigning a higher rating either by rating the service connected disorder on the basis of heart disease or on the basis of hypertension.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for heart disease with hypertension as it did not have its onset during active service, did not manifest within one year of separation from active service, was not caused or aggravated by the veteran's service connected PTSD, and is not otherwise etiologically related to the veteran's active service.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for PTSD as the evidence did not meet the diagnostic criteria for PTSD and there was no credible supporting evidence that the claimed stressors actually occurred.
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